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Shifting the Harmful Narratives and Practices of Work Requirements

NonProfit Quarterly

A job that pays less than childcare costs, imposes schedules on short notice, and doesn’t offer benefits cannot help people escape poverty. But because of narratives about what poor people and people of color deserve, they are relegated to jobs that perpetuate cycles of poverty and disenfranchisement. They’re effective.

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When It Comes to Promoting Prosperity, Production Beats Consumption

Stanford Social Innovation Review

From Consumption to Production We need to change our perspective on the problem: Seeing through a consumption lens orients us toward an arbitrary, and unacceptably-low-by-Western-standards poverty line. Various others work in the space in between, like Charter Cities Institute on urban development and economic clusters.

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Housing and Climate: Funding Holistic Solutions

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Property values shoot up, as does the cost of living, and lower-income households are displaced. And in January 2022, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) opened access to more than $2 billion in federal funds to help communities equitably recover and improve long-term resilience to disasters and future climate impacts.