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Excessive Wealth Has Run Amok—This Must Stop

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Malik Cıl on pexels.com I’ve been a student of inequality for a long time—as a curious child and later as a sociology professor. Conceptually, the threshold for excessive wealth would be the point at which an individual can take the government hostage or otherwise damage democratic institutions. What level would that be?

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The Break with Corporate Neoliberalism That Wasn’t—The Biden Years

NonProfit Quarterly

As sociology professor and poverty expert Mark Rank explains, the 13.7 And that cost of living depends not just on prices and wages but also on the value of government benefits. Taxation also did not significantly change. The number of children in poverty , according to US Census Bureau data, climbed from 5.2 million to 42.84