NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Image credit: Max Winkler on Unsplash “When people die of heat, they are actually dying of poverty,” the New York Times wrote in 2023 about a devastating heat wave during which 10 people died in Texas. But around the world, the climate emergency underscores the ongoing emergency of poverty.

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Poverty Energy Health Manufacturing 137

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 24, 2023

This article is the second in the series Eradicating Rural Poverty: The Power of Cooperation. Rural communities have varied local economies, which include manufacturing , healthcare, the service sector, and agriculture. In America’s rural areas of deep poverty, over 60 percent of the residents are BIPOC.

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Poverty Agriculture Community Development Culture 116

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 31, 2023

Mattel began manufacturing Barbie dolls in Japan in 1959 when the country’s economic struggle right after World War II made labor cheaper. Squeezing manufacturing labor overseas became a brutal fallback strategy to eke out a profit. The specialty was: We make items. Now we are an I.P. company that is managing franchises.”

Manufacturing 98

Manufacturing Culture Production Technology 98

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 5, 2024

With the increase of new industries in the area has come a flood of new construction; thousands of workers at a new car manufacturing plant, for example, need a place to live. to Corpus Christi, Texas—a flood- and hurricane-prone region with deep pockets of poverty, poor health and economic and racial inequities.”

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Construction Poverty Environmental Governance 73

Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 27, 2022

using non-toxic building materials that were manufactured, transported, and constructed using low-carbon, non-polluting methods and materials); reducing energy consumption and pollution; and using integrative design , which incorporates sustainability up front and promotes good health and livability throughout the building’s life cycle.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Energy Manufacturing Environmental 111

NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 9, 2023

For example, one participant mentioned that if capitalism worked the way it’s “supposed” to—by creating products needed by individuals and markets meeting that demand—it wouldn’t drive overconsumption; other participants noted that manufacturers market in a predatory way that leads to excessive consumption.

Agriculture 98

Agriculture Environmental Food Public and Social Policy 98

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

But child care is more expensive than ever, and the federal government hasn’t done enough to support families, especially working mothers. The federal government must act quickly to preserve and increase funding for child care. Now more than ever, families bear the brunt of the economic burden.

Public and Social Policy 140

Public and Social Policy Children Governance Philanthropy 140

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Much of this struggle takes place outside government, but the role of the state is important. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Democracy (OECD)—a group of 41 relatively wealthy nations, including the United States—in 2019, US government spending (federal, state, and local) equaled 38.1 Long-term care.

Public and Social Policy 127

Public and Social Policy Governance Poverty Healthcare 127

NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

We should be regulating corporate capture; instead, our government has enabled it. William Fulbright railed against what he called the “military–industrial–academic complex,” during the growing wartime intimacy among government, the defense industry, and university life. As early as 1967, Senator J.

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Public and Social Policy Universities Nonprofit Administration and Development Public and Nonprofit Management 134

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 5, 2024

After all, it’s hard for local farmers to sell their crops or eggs or cattle when they’re competing with free food from a foreign government or institution. The bulk of the continent’s exports are raw materials, low-value-added manufacturing providing little room for profit, and cash crops. This undermines revenue in two ways.

Public and Social Policy 144

Public and Social Policy Manufacturing Energy Participation and motivation 144

NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. This is another major theme of the book.

Technology 140

Technology Health Production Manufacturing 140

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 10, 2025

Many find inspiration in the story of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American cancer patient whose tumor cells were taken without her consent in 1951leading to a multibillion dollar industry, while her family and descendants dealt with poverty. Not all data are generated, valued, or treated in the same way. Data Sovereignty.

Health 71

Health Race and Ethnicity Ethics Public and Social Policy 71

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. SD: You mention a shift from self-governing organizations to NGOs and nonprofits.

Culture 120

Culture Energy Governance Leadership 120

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The number of children in poverty , according to US Census Bureau data, climbed from 5.2 percent (9.962 million) between 2021 and 2023, while the number of people of all ages in poverty climbed from 25.58 As sociology professor and poverty expert Mark Rank explains, the 13.7 percent (3.829 million) to 13.7 million to 42.84

Public and Social Policy 116

Public and Social Policy Poverty Law Sociology 116