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What Harvard Can Learn From Olive Garden
America’s casual restaurants serve a more diverse clientele than many of America’s elite universities.
And the food’s better, too.
Photographer: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images North AmericaThe evidence continues to accumulate that America’s nonprofit sector is failing the country in some basic ways. Specifically, it is not doing enough to break down unjust inequalities and barriers to opportunity.
Consider nonprofit hospitals. According to the data, nonprofit hospitals barely behave differently than for-profit hospitals. They do not charge systematically lower prices or somehow do more to help people. Some studies show slight differences, but it’s hard to argue that non-profit hospitals are more charitable or have more altruistic priorities.