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Policies for Housing With Heart

Stanford Social Innovation Review

One of the grandmothers was holding and cooing to the baby, while the grandfather played a game with pre-teen children, freeing the granddaughter to make the fire and cook the meal. Children grow up and leave their parents behind, starting new “nuclear” family units. Multigenerational households are rare.

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How to Move Guaranteed Income from Program to Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

But it is past time to move from programs to policy. Drawing from our evaluations and other research and best practices in the field, we offer the following recommendations to create a social safety net that works for all people. Most government policy wonks have little to no experience with families living in poverty.

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Co-op Leaders Consider Future as International Year of the Co-op Nears

NonProfit Quarterly

Cooperatives, however, UN officials hope, might be able to help nations better achieve these targets because they combine economic and social goals. The economy of the future must be a social economy —that is, an economy rooted in social values and community ownership.

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Okinawa and the Link Between Socioeconomic Disparities and Colonialism in Japan

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Given that many Japanese fail to recognize the structural discrimination against Okinawa, undoing it involves understanding the historical context of Okinawa’s oppression and why it has endured, and how policy makers and citizens can work to restore equity to the region. Relocation of the bases has also remained out of reach.

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Teachers Unions Take on Climate Change

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: lilartsy on unsplash.com This is the third article from A Green New Deal on the Ground , a series produced with Climate and Community Project, a progressive climate policy think tank developing cutting-edge research at the climate and inequality nexus. Public school teachers are not just educators.

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How Gig Work Exploits Instead of Empowers Women in the Global South

Stanford Social Innovation Review

But in other ways, it was old news for a country in which 92 percent of total employment is in the informal economy—a category that long predates gig work, and which is defined as any employment where workers lack access to government social and labor protections through their jobs.

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We Must Be Founders

Stanford Social Innovation Review

To change peoples’ material reality, however, means rehauling the entire operating system of our democracy, not just tinkering with its policies. We need to reimagine our laws, regulations, customs, and institutions. We need to be much more aspirational and long-term in our thinking. It won’t be easy.