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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. Slavery became the economic engine of the United States, fueling wars and building industries, including agriculture, banking, small business, and manufacturing.

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

NonProfit Quarterly

As sociology professor and poverty expert Mark Rank explains, the 13.7 Most notably, these included the initial 2021 American Rescue Plan COVID relief bill, the infrastructure bill , the climate bill ( Inflation Reduction Act ), and the CHIPS and Science Act (which subsidizes US-based semiconductor manufacturing). million to 42.84