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Addressing Our Real Deficits: Democracy and Human Rights

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Analysis in Nonprofit Quarterly by Human Rights Development Program Director Peter Sabonis, addressing budgets, deficits, and taxation in our post-COVID era:

“What is essential? The COVID-19 pandemic has been clarifying in that regard. Health care, food, housing, income support, education, water, and energy surely are among the items that top the list. But in a system where so many essential human needs are commodified, this point is so often hidden from view.”

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