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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

What was Freelancers Union doing for the most precarious workers, beyond its main constituency of educated professionals? Union-owned renewable energy: Imagine a largely immigrant neighborhood near an oil refinery. Many residents work in the energy industry, and large portions of their incomes go back to that industry.

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Ancestor in the Making: A Future Where Philanthropy’s Legacy Is Stopping the Bad and Building the New

NonProfit Quarterly

We witnessed huge shifts to public education with dramatic differences in per-pupil spending, because resources were no longer allocated by zip code. The passage of the THRIVE Act prioritized renewable, environmentally sound, ethically sourced energy production, from development to deployment.

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Building a Solidarity Economy in the South (and Beyond)—Cooperation Jackson

NonProfit Quarterly

Doing so will no doubt require a major recruitment and education drive. Unfortunately, Mayor Lumumba died, from obscure causes, on Tuesday, February 25, 2014. 7 This date sadly lives on in infamy in Jackson’s social movement circles, because it stunted an emerging solidarity economy in Jackson and deepened our city’s water crisis.

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The Social Contract: What’s Missing in the “Historic” Biden Legislation?

NonProfit Quarterly

As Harvard economist David Deming has pointed out , “A generation ago, there was a system that helped you not take on the risk yourself to pay for college education, but society took on the risk for you by making tuition cheap…We’ve shifted the risk from society directly to the student.” The student debt explosion illustrates this.

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Commentary: The Stakes in Washington For Nonprofits In 2025

The NonProfit Times

The threat of increased taxation feels more real than in decades, given how the sector has been scrutinized by Congress lately. Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith (R-MO) and other tax-writing Republicans devoted significant time and energy investigating various corners of the tax-exempt sector. Prominent Washington, D.C.

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Corporate Capture—Can We Find a Way Out?

NonProfit Quarterly

This is neoliberalism, which is best understood as a politics in which the state acts to support the concentration of wealth among an elite few through its taxation, spending, and regulatory policies. But even absent open dictatorship, US government today is less a democracy than a plutocracy, ruled by the wealthy few.