| Sep 13, 2023 | RoundupNew federal poverty numbers are in and the news isn’t great. The Supplemental Poverty Measure saw a record jump just one year after posting a record low. What happened? It’s simple, poverty expert Lakeisha McVey explains. The government implemented some...
| | Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIf you’re a parent or student in America this fall, watch out: “edutainment” could be coming to your school. What’s “edutainment”? It’s what PragerU, a business that is not a university at all but a media shop run by right-wing talk-show host Dennis Prager, calls its...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyAfter hitting a record low of 7.8 percent in 2021, new data shows the government’s Supplemental Poverty Measure jumped to 12.4 percent last year. That’s a nearly 60 percent increase. And it’s all because politicians allowed proven income support programs to expire....
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIt’s been 15 years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers. The investment firm’s startling downfall marked the beginning of a historic Wall Street crash that swiftly wiped out over $7 trillion in home equity and $2.8 trillion in retirement portfolios. Wall Street...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyBack to school! Bright-eyed youngsters are now back in our public classrooms, filled with questions about the world around them. Questions like: What happened to our school library? And where did our librarians go? Sadly, these wholly beneficial, caring educators are...
