| Feb 10, 2021 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyIf it’s passed by Congress, President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 relief proposal would do a lot more than fund relief payments and vaccine rollouts. It would also raise the wage floor for all U.S. workers — and give a particularly long overdue raise to restaurant servers,...
| Nov 12, 2020 | Rights / DemocracyTrump may have lost his bid for reelection, but many will still wonder: How has America turned so right-wing that a narcissistic, wannabe-dictator like Trump was even in the running? A vocal of minority of the president’s supporters may be racist, xenophobic, and...
| Aug 14, 2019 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyOver the summer, the House voted to incrementally raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. If the Senate had passed the bill, it would have been the first federal minimum wage increase in more than a decade — far too long for residents of the 21 states that don’t have...
| Aug 6, 2019 | Economy / Business|HP SubfeaturedThe mechanics of wealth building are fairly simple. Save more than you spend, invest those savings to generate more money. Lather, rinse, repeat. There’s one big problem for younger people trying to do this: The rules are rigged against them. Here are five facts...
| Jul 24, 2019 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / Democracy“We are one of the wealthiest countries in the history of this world. And yet millions of adults in the United States still don’t have health insurance,” Rep. Ilhan Omar told her Minnesota constituents at a July 18 town hall. A day after the president of the United...