While an announcement that borrowers of federal school loans will have their outstanding balance cancelled—or at least will get $50,000 forgiven—is still hoped for by many, work has started on deconstructing the existing federal school loan system to assist those who have qualified, or should have qualified, for cancellation of their debt but never made
“Every human society must justify its inequalities … in today’s societies, those justificatory narratives comprise theories of property, entrepreneurship, and meritocracy.” So begins Thomas Piketty’s Capital and Ideology, a 1,000-page-plus tome. Piketty’s new book has faded a bit into obscurity, in part the victim of bad timing. Early reviews appeared in the Guardian, the New
Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash This article is the fourth in our series—Community Development: National Leaders’ Visions—that NPQ, in partnership with the CEO Circle, an informal network of BIPOC community economic development leaders, is publishing in the coming weeks. The series focuses on identifying what is required to address key transformational challenges and to
As NPQ readers may suspect, we get a lot of press releases. But one last month grabbed my attention. “I wanted to get this over to you,” the email began. The writer went on, “As you may know, last month, The House Ways and Means Committee approved the tax provisions of President Biden’s Build Back
“Timeless,” Larkery Design theorist Tony Fry warns us that one of the key things we have to reorient around as we design for social change now is our concept of time. In Design as Politics, he writes, No matter the differences of our circumstances as individuals, cultures, or nations, we now share a time that
