| Oct 18, 2023 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracySeemingly intractable problems sometimes have an obvious solution standing right in front of them. Our nation’s dire shortage of long-haul truck drivers, for example. Wrangling big rigs across the country is difficult and dangerous work, and the corporate giants that...
| May 17, 2023 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedEver since the middle of the 20th century, our history textbooks have applauded the reform movement that put an end to the child-labor horrors that ran widespread throughout the early Industrial Age. Now those horrors are reappearing. The number of kids employed in...
| Apr 5, 2023 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP FeaturedWith new outrages erupting every day, I find some comfort in knowing that we the people have at least eliminated certain particularly ugly plutocratic abuses. Child labor, for example — outlawed in 1938, right? Well, outlawed, yes; stopped, no. Recent reports reveal...
| Mar 8, 2023 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyBrad Greve has been a Scout leader for more than 20 years. The Davenport, Iowa retiree leads 50-mile canoe trips on Minnesota’s Boundary Waters that test teens’ mettle while teaching them essential skills. Greve told a story recently where two boys, despite being...
| Jul 27, 2016 | Economy / BusinessThe debates leading up to the election this year will no doubt invoke the “American value” of capitalism. But what, exactly, does that mean? And what should it mean? I’m no economist, but I took a few economics courses while earning an undergraduate...