Nonprofits: We Must Start Beating the Drum

How can the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) totally overlook more than 10% of the American workforce?

A recent CEA report regarding the economic impacts of health care reform on small businesses completely disregards the 15 million people employed by nonprofits (in 2008, according to DHHS [PDF]) and an entire sector that accounts for 11-12% of the nation’s GDP (in 2007, according to GAO [PDF]).

Full text article by Tim Delaney is avaialable via The Nonprofit Quarterly, 8.19.09.

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