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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. It’s time to change public policy to do away with excessive wealth and its corrosive effects on our lives, our society, and our democracy. Let’s look at the private path first.

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How to Advance a Just Energy Transition in Oil-Dominated New Brunswick

NonProfit Quarterly

The Fight against Natural Gas Last summer, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) released a report describing the grassroots movements opposing fossil fuel development in Eastern Canada (Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and Prince Edward Island). But fears of natural gas projects have been renewed.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

The social welfare state expansion that occurred early in the pandemicfirst under Donald Trump and then under Joe Bidenis now gone. As sociology professor and poverty expert Mark Rank explains, the 13.7 The social welfare state expansion that occurred early in the pandemicfirst under Donald Trump and then under Joe Biden is now gone.