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New Report Looks at Women’s Incarceration in America

NonProfit Quarterly

The Deeper Impacts of Incarceration Over 3,000 women were pregnant when they were sent to prison and most were without health insurance at the time. For instance, over one-fourth of incarcerated women experienced homelessness in the year before their arrest. In the month leading up to their arrest, women are more likely to be jobless.

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Finding Love in a Hopeless Place: A Conversation with Malaika Jabali

NonProfit Quarterly

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. A majority of voters supported replacing private health insurance with a universal government plan.

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50 Nonprofits To Be Grateful For This Thanksgiving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Because poverty and food insecurity is at record highs in the United States. National Coalition for the Homeless. Southern Poverty Law Center. Because all children – insured or not – deserve the right to fight dying from cancer. Because access to health care should be a right, not a privildege.

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50 Nonprofits To Be Grateful For This Thanksgiving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Because poverty and food insecurity is at record highs in the United States. National Coalition for the Homeless. Southern Poverty Law Center. Because all children – insured or not – deserve the right to fight dying from cancer. Because access to health care should be a right, not a privildege.

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Profit at What Cost? An Interview with Ray Suarez, host of Going for Broke

NonProfit Quarterly

That’s the crazy moment we’re in now, when in their zeal to find ways to cut pennies here and pennies there, they’ll push people to the wall who can’t afford their health insurance, trying to find ways to eliminate jobs just short of people’s retirement. They are homeless. They are defined by the problem that they have.

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How Poverty Violence Shows Whose Lives Are “Worth” More in America

NonProfit Quarterly

Racism and poverty were the forms of violence that made Cole and Walker vulnerable and ultimately led to their deaths. Contempt for poverty is violence. At the time of his death, Neely was homeless, named on the list of 50 people experiencing homelessness in New York who were most in need of help.

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How Black Women Are Contextualizing the 2024 Election Results

NonProfit Quarterly

Now, the once-vibrant district is now plagued by high poverty rates and lower life expectancy. Noting that Americans are experiencing unprecedented rates of homelessness, and many are left riddled in debt, Taylor suggests that Harris—as well as the Democratic party as a whole—did not speak to these concerns enough.