| Sep 29, 2021 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyRight now, corporations and the ultra-rich are spending millions to derail President Biden’s Build Back Better plan. Behind the scenes, they’re hard at work to keep our elected officials from helping our country recover from the pandemic. Poll after poll tells us that...
| Sep 22, 2021 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedThe House of Representatives just took a much-needed first step in preparing for the next pandemic. The Energy and Commerce Committee announced that the Build Back Better Act, the Biden administration’s $3.5 trillion jobs and infrastructure package, will include $15...
| | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyAs lawmakers scramble to finalize a historic jobs and infrastructure package, huge fights are underway to figure out how to fund it. The simplest, most effective, and most popular way is to tax the extremely wealthy, like the billionaires who’ve seen their collective...
| Sep 1, 2021 | Economy / Business|HP FeaturedThe collective wealth of the seven wealthiest Americans has now reached nearly $1 trillion. And these seven pay virtually nothing in income tax. According to Forbes, the collective wealth of these seven men — Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry...
| Aug 25, 2021 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedWhen you think of the New Deal, what comes to mind? For many Americans, the era has an enduring physical legacy in our parks, tree lines, and trails. On Orcas Island in Washington, hundreds of young men with the Civilian Conservation Corps built Moran State...
