| Mar 15, 2023 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyHow can we measure what our leaders value? One way is to look at their budgets. On March 9, President Biden rolled out a budget proposal that he’ll ask Congress to consider. Presidential budget proposals seldom pass in the form they’re presented, but they offer clues...
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| Mar 8, 2023 | RoundupYou can tell the labor market’s still hot enough for workers to be choosy about where they agree to work — and under what conditions. During the pandemic, many low-wage, low-benefit, and dangerous workplaces lost employees as workers sought better pastures. Now,...
| | Rights / DemocracyMany of today’s right-wing governors and state legislators have a problem. By constantly pushing an extremist ideological agenda of nonsense about nutty conspiracy theories — while imposing autocratic laws to ban everything from voting to library books — they’ve...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured“What about the children?” This was arguably the most frequently posed question by critics in the years prior to state-level marijuana legalization. Many legalization opponents presumed that legalizing cannabis for adults would lead to an increase in marijuana use...
