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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. Why Excessive Wealth Matters Academics and nonprofit activists have long talked about income inequality—and, more recently, have begun to address the more significant issue of wealth inequality.

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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 Taxation also did not significantly change. The number of children in poverty , according to US Census Bureau data, climbed from 5.2 percent (3.829 million) to 13.7 million to 42.84 million, an increase of over 17 million people or 5.1 percentage points.