The income gap between haves and have-nots is widening throughout the United States, but the increased inequality is particularly notable in Connecticut, where between 2009 and 2013, the top one percent received literally 100 percent of the gains while the bottom 99 percent actually saw incomes decline.
Our current economic expansion, already the nation’s second longest, continues. And yet, beneath the surface, it’s obvious this economic expansion is not like the others.
The pernicious effects of the nation’s growing inequality undermine democratic practices not only in government, but within the nonprofit sector, such as among museums.
Boston’s Economic Mobility Lab will collect and use longitudinal data to address the challenges of structural racism and the income and wealth disparities that are all too apparent across the city’s neighborhoods.
Is it better to be an atheist who does good deeds than a Catholic who does not? Pope Francis’s words are in line with his teaching about stewardship and service and cut through the din of rhetoric to remind nonprofits and others of their mission.
Connecticut’s achievement gap is an opportunity gap the Founding Fathers never intended.
Paying UBIT may provide the nonprofit sector with an economic and moral leadership opportunity to advocate for changes in the tax code. As a sector whose tax exemption is premised on creating public good, nonprofits could serve as a control group for changes in the tax code.
New data show that 2015 was a good year for the economy and for the middle class and the poor in particular.
Humility and trust are necessary for a just society and decent philanthropy.
It really is the economy: The divide between rich and poor has kept growing.
