NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 2, 2024

Image credit: Miriam Alonso on pexels.com Loneliness is “the most human of feelings,” Jeremy Nobel, faculty at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, said on the podcast Harvard Thinking. How many seasonal celebrations were deferred, and social connections interrupted or never even made?

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Public and Social Policy Sociology Health Medical 134

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 19, 2023

Editor’s note: In Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power: The Case for Reparations for Mass Incarceration (2022) , sociologist Tasseli McKay offers a “cradle-to-grave accounting” of mass incarceration’s harms by tallying its social and economic costs. They furnish their own transport, often traveling for hours on public trains and buses.

Public and Social Policy 141

Public and Social Policy Health Associations Children 141

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2023

A familiar scent wafts from the kitchen where your aunts are warming food they prepared earlier. The resulting public health response is to “close the gap” and aim to level the rates of Black maternal and infant outcomes to match those of the white population. Your partner whispers reminders of your beauty , your strength , your power.

Health 131

Health Healthcare Public and Social Policy Ethics 131

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Image credit: Getty Images on Unsplash+ In May 2024, demand for food pantries in the Chicago area reportedly had risen 26 percent , a year after food stamp benefits had been cut nationally by an average of $328 per family of four. As sociology professor and poverty expert Mark Rank explains, the 13.7 million to 42.84

Public and Social Policy 114

Public and Social Policy Poverty Law Sociology 114