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Countering Criminalization: The Vital Role of Organizing Against Homelessness

NonProfit Quarterly

Theoharis is the executive director of the Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice , which found that roughly 140 million or 43.3 During the Gilded Age, in the late 1800s, homelessness was widespread in urban communities, and vagrancy laws made loitering, being poor, looking suspicious, wandering around, or being drunk a crime.

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Whose Capital? Our Capital! The Power of Workers’ Pensions for the Common Good

NonProfit Quarterly

Imagine your outrage if you were a public school teacher and your pension fund invested in a company that supported and lobbied for vouchers and charter schools. Public employee pension funds in the United States have $5.99 Public employee pension funds in the United States have $5.99 Pension Funds: Whose Capital? Our Capital!