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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

A small change to employment law in 1974 enabled over 10 million workers to share in the profits of their employers. 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

These new laws channeled philanthropic assets into municipal bonds and community development loan funds, which stabilized local municipalities. The passage of the THRIVE Act prioritized renewable, environmentally sound, ethically sourced energy production, from development to deployment.

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Civil Society Undermined by Conflict, Disinformation, and Repression of Protest

NonProfit Quarterly

Areas for advocacy could include progressive taxation, such as windfall and wealth taxes, social protection floors, universal basic incomes, union recognition and more effective business regulation” (33). Meanwhile, the right to protest “is under attack, even in longstanding democracies” (6).

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

NonProfit Quarterly

The practices rely on dynamics of collective care and social reproduction that are not primarily compelled by subjugation to the law of value within the capitalist system. See Amna Akbar, “Non-Reformist Reforms and Struggles over Life, Death, and Democracy,” Yale Law Journal 132, no. 8 (June 2023): 2497–577.

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Corporate Capture—Can We Find a Way Out?

NonProfit Quarterly

But the corporate form, per se, is not the problem—the corporation is just a creature of law that limits individual liability. 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.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

trillion bill, which is only true if you count the $650 billion for roads and infrastructure that was already law before the bill’s passage. Taxation is mildly deflationary, since, by definition, taxes reduce the money available for consumer purchases. None of those policy changes made it into law. percent increase from the $4.9

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Commentary: The Stakes in Washington For Nonprofits In 2025

The NonProfit Times

Senate and is on track to retain control of the House, even if by a slim margin, which would allow Congress to bypass the Senate filibuster and enact certain tax and spending laws with simple majorities. The threat of increased taxation feels more real than in decades, given how the sector has been scrutinized by Congress lately.

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