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Is Climate Change Making Loneliness Worse?

NonProfit Quarterly

“We talk a lot about the emerging climate crisis, but far less about the social infrastructure crisis,” Eric Klinenberg, a sociology professor at New York University, said to Grist. Those most impacted by a lack of or failing infrastructure, including the elderly and people living in poverty, are at high risk for loneliness.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

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