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How TIFs Impact Racial and Economic Justice at the Local Level

NonProfit Quarterly

When it comes to racial and economic justice and government taxation, federal policy tends to get the most attention. However, state and local taxation are far more damaging. However, state and local taxation are far more damaging shifting the tax burden from the well-to-do to the least well off.

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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

Before the Affordable Care Act, it was the only good option for health insurance. Our reigning frameworks for taxation and securities don’t enable the kinds of association required. For several years, I had been a grateful member of the Freelancers Union , which she founded in 1995. Rather, policy prevents it in often subtle ways.

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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

Hedge Funds That Conduct Classes Today, universities turn their research into lucrative commercial goods and patents in a range of fields, from the pharmaceutical industries and software products to health services and military defense weaponry.