NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 27, 2025

percent of people in the United States were poor or low-income (earning between poverty-line income and twice that amount) in 2018. An article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association lists poverty as the nations fourth leading cause of death. And homelessness is rising.

Homelessness 105

Homelessness Poverty Public and Social Policy Urban development 105

NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 8, 2025

The Road to Public Banking in New York For decades, private banks driven by profit have funneled public money into harmful practices like fossil fuel development and speculative real estate. The same holds true for credit unions, which are barred by state law from holding any public deposits, thanks to bank lobbying.

Finance 136

Finance Law Poverty Governance 136

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In total, more than a dozen law enforcement officials were waiting, undercover or in hiding, to surprise the Roberts family. Before they were living in two campers on federal public land, the Roberts family shared an apartment in Emmett, ID, where Judy Roberts worked in a factory.

Homelessness 122

Homelessness Law Public Policy Public and Nonprofit Management 122

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2023

But to respond effectively, it is important to understand dollar stores’ growing importance, how communities are responding, and how public policy might better support community-based businesses. On its website, ILSR maintains a set of maps showing the overlay of poverty and store location in multiple metropolitan areas.

Retail 133

Retail Food Law Governance 133

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

When federal or nonprofit assistance is available to victims of natural disasters, Black families often find that they do not qualify for relief because of informal land ownership arrangements that are the legacy of Jim Crow laws, which often denied Black people formal means of passing property from one generation to another.

Public Policy 119

Public Policy Poverty Health Associations 119

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Adimika Arthur, Founding Executive Director of HealthTech4Medicaid, then led a discussion of the ways that public policy and convening intersect with these issues. What impact can those shifts have without broader systemic reforms to address racism and poverty?

Health 119

Health Public and Social Policy Healthcare Finance 119

NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

This was not so often the case in the 1960s, when civil rights laws were passed and long-term employment, at least in unionized sectors, was the norm; it is the case today. 23 William Gale, codirector of the Urban Brookings Tax Policy Center, concurs. Are poverty wages less miserable because your boss is Black? Sniderman et al.,

Public and Social Policy 98

Public and Social Policy Race and Ethnicity Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management 98

NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

This includes strategies of community organizing, public policy and advocacy, civic engagement, cultural/arts organizing, land/food sovereignty, healing justice, and more. How do we shift scarcity mindsets that are rooted in deep and real experiences with poverty and oppression?

Leadership 111

Leadership Public and Social Policy Non-Profits Culture 111

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

From poverty wages to sky-high rents to environmental disasters, many of the crises we face today are linked to outsized and entrenched corporate power. To counter corporations’ outsized and unchecked power grab, we need more than public policy fights, community benefits agreements, and harm reduction.

Public Policy 142

Public Policy Governance Non-Profits Law 142

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The lasting impact of our country’s discriminatory housing and lending practices has led to widespread racial residential segregation and concentrated poverty, and differential access to community conditions that promote health such as high-quality schools, clean air, parks and open spaces, and job opportunities.

Public and Social Policy 111

Public and Social Policy Homelessness Poverty Health 111

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Education is promised as a path out of poverty—but it’s also a means of extraction under racial capitalism. Racist public policy created it, and we will need bold structural solutions to fix it.” including cancelling the full remaining balance for roughly 20 million borrowers.”.

Public and Social Policy 132

Public and Social Policy Public and Nonprofit Management Education Education 132