| Dec 22, 2021 | Food / FarmingSome years ago, a young, hippyish couple knocked on my front door. They had noticed that I had fig trees in the yard, laden with summer fruit. If I wasn’t going to pick them all, they asked, could they harvest some figs? Since I was about to take a trip, I said: Sure,...
| Dec 15, 2021 | RoundupOn December 15, the families of 65 million U.S. children received their last monthly payment under the expanded Child Tax Credit, which expires this month. Those payments have kept millions out of poverty, writes West Virginia mom Kristen Olsen. Unfortunately, the GOP...
| | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyI work hard to make ends meet for my family. But as an educator in West Virginia, that’s hard sometimes — especially with child care to pay for. Fortunately, the expanded Child Tax Credit that Democrats passed this spring has been a lifeline. Those monthly payments...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedHeadlines are screaming that inflation is here to stay. U.S. consumer prices have risen by an average of 6.2 percent in the past year, the sharpest increase since 1991. Although Americans are supposedly — in the words of the New York Times — “flush with cash and...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedIn a world that’s clogged and choking with a massive overdose of plastic trash, you’ll be heartened to learn that governments and industries are teaming up to respond forcefully to this planetary crisis. Unfortunately, their response has been to engage in a global...
