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How philanthropy can partner with the public sector to build equitable infrastructure

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By Don Howard, Elena Chavez Quezada
| philanthropynewsdigest.org
Infrastructure is much more than concrete and steel beams; it’s an engine of economic growth and prosperity. It supports the daily services we rely on, powers businesses, and connects people to jobs. For too long, that engine has been neglected—especially in low-income communities and communities of color. But now an unprecedented surge of infrastructure funding across America has opened a window of opportunity that we cannot afford to miss.
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The Troubling Gap Between What’s Offered by Our Social Safety Net and What’s Received

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By Jim Pugh, Sean Kline, Elena Chavez Quezada, Teri Olle
| In These Times Verified
How much support do people actually receive from the social safety net? That’s the question that a recently released report from the University of Southern California’s Price Center for Social Innovation aimed to answer. The report, titled ​“Examining the Complex Social Safety Net for Low-Income Working Families,” explored what social programs are available to Los Angeles residents and how the support they receive from those programs varies as their wages increase.
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The Women’s Wealth Gap Glares Harsher than Ever, So It’s Time to Close It

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By Elena Chavez Quezada, Debra B. Whitman
| Next City Verified
The pandemic has crystalized—in the glaring sort of way—our country’s contradictions. One of them: The dueling demands we put on women to care for others and work without relief, all the while denied fair wages, benefits and other opportunities to achieve economic well-being for themselves and their families. The life of Fita, aunt to one of us coauthors (Elena Chávez Quezada) and a fierce and savvy woman who recently passed away at 100, speaks to what many women experience.
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Elena Chavez Quezada: We need to help women close the retirement savings gap

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By Elena Chavez Quezada
| TED
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