| Feb 21, 2024 | Economy / Business|HP Featured“How we gonna pay last year’s rent?” the chorus implores in the song “Rent” from Jonathan Larson’s 1996 musical of the same name. It’s the same refrain for many Americans today. A new Harvard study found that half of U.S. renter households now spend more than 30...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyEach year many Americans pay a steep cost when doing their taxes. It’s not just the money people shell out to use software to file taxes online, but also the time spent and the stress that comes with worrying an honest mistake will be held against them. Luckily,...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyHere’s our big word of the day: extraterritoriality. It expresses a sketchy legal theory asserting that rulers in one state have a right to enforce their laws in another state. Its most prominent was in the infamous Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which required officials...
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| Feb 14, 2024 | RoundupThis week, we continue our look at the cost of living in America and the folks working to help more of us make it. If you’ve raised kids in the last few years, you know that child care is something else. You’re supposed to save a kid’s whole life for...
