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Building an Economy with Purpose: The Transformative Potential of Baby Bonds

NonProfit Quarterly

Extensive research shows that public policy can shape economic outcomes. The public can demand economic policies that benefit the broader population. A key question becomes: What kind of economic policies should the public demand? Wealth is a fundamental measure of stability and opportunity.

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What Does Finance for the People Look Like?

NonProfit Quarterly

A recent report by the Office of the State Comptroller found that Rochester has the fifth-highest child poverty rate of any US city. Children of color in Rochester are disproportionately affected, underscoring the systemic inequities that investment from a city-owned bank could help combat.

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Research: Just how much do faith, ethnicity, politics and age affect giving?

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

“In fact, donors who attend religious services are more likely to have given toward disaster relief (68%), domestic hunger or poverty relief (66%), helping people with disabilities (56%), health care or medical research (54%), and veterans’ causes (52%) than they are to have supported specifically religious work,&# the study notes.

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How to Move Guaranteed Income from Program to Policy

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Barbara Olsen on Pexels If you want to reduce poverty, cash matters. Springboard to Opportunities —the organization we both work for—began operations in 2013 with the goal to break cycles of generational poverty that are particularly persistent in Black communities.

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How the Child Tax Credit Empowered Low-Income Parents

NonProfit Quarterly

The new studies bolster the case, long made by many liberal economists and policymakers, that poor families tend to spend cash welfare payments on their most pressing needs, to the benefit of the entire household and especially children. The recent studies, conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R.

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Building Union Power to Rein in the AI Boss

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Another algorithmically-controlled system subsequently decided that some of those parents’ income could no longer support their families, and nearly 1,700 children were forcibly removed from their homes. But the algorithm was flawed, failing to account for variables outside teachers’ control, such as poverty or student learning disabilities.

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What’s the State of Play in Child Tax Credit Negotiations?

NonProfit Quarterly

Public policy, however, can make a tremendous difference. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress temporarily implemented a child tax credit initiative that in 2021 cut child poverty nearly in half, lifting millions out of poverty, according to a US Census report. What is the Child Tax Credit?

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