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Corporations Keep Finding New Ways to Gouge Us. Our Laws Must Catch Up.

Corporations Keep Finding New Ways to Gouge Us. Our Laws Must Catch Up.

| Sep 30, 2026 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyEvery day, companies find better, and sneakier, ways to reach deeper into our wallets. They trap us in subscriptions, bury fees until checkout, use algorithms to collude with competitors, and mine our personal data to charge us the most we’re willing to pay. With each...
Rural America Needs to Band Together Against Corporate Greed

Rural America Needs to Band Together Against Corporate Greed

| Mar 4, 2026 | Economy / Business|Food / Farming|HP SubfeaturedLast year, John Deere announced plans to go 100 percent robotic by 2030. That’s right: in just four more years, the world’s largest tractor manufacturer plans to replace every corn and soybean farmer with robots. Farmers won’t own the machines, of course. Right now...
It’s Time to Turn Up the Heat on Monopoly Utilities

It’s Time to Turn Up the Heat on Monopoly Utilities

| Mar 27, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured$2,200 for the year: That’s the utility bill that almost broke me. You’ve probably heard the statistic that most Americans can’t afford a $500 emergency. But hardly anyone talks about how electricity bills have become that emergency for families like mine — and all...
Health Insurers Profit from Suffering, Not Care

Health Insurers Profit from Suffering, Not Care

| Jan 29, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedHealth care is big business in the United States. So big it can be hard to wrap your head around. America’s largest health care company, the UnitedHealth Group, pulled in over $100 billion in revenue in just the fourth quarter of 2024 alone. For the full year, the...
Anger Explodes at Health Care CEOs

Anger Explodes at Health Care CEOs

| Dec 11, 2024 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP FeaturedOver 8,000 Americans die every day, many of them unnecessarily. Why? Because the United States still doesn’t have a national health care system that guarantees everyone adequate medical attention. One particular American’s death has driven that point home. On December...
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