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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

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. Our reigning frameworks for taxation and securities don’t enable the kinds of association required.

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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).

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Community Production Purpose: End our dependence on monopoly manufacturers, energy producers, big tech, and Big Pharma, and autonomously manufacture the appropriate technological instruments required to meet our basic material and social needs within the ecological capacities of our communities and environments.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

The passage of the THRIVE Act prioritized renewable, environmentally sound, ethically sourced energy production, from development to deployment. With policy changes in taxation and increased regulation governing corporations and philanthropic wealth, our economy became more regenerative, and everyone had the resources they needed to thrive.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

Taxation is mildly deflationary, since, by definition, taxes reduce the money available for consumer purchases. As Rhiana Gunn-Wright of the Roosevelt Institute puts it , the IRA’s climate provisions are an “historic but deeply flawed step forward for the development and deployment of climate solutions and clean energy.”.

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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.