| Sep 22, 2021 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedThe House of Representatives just took a much-needed first step in preparing for the next pandemic. The Energy and Commerce Committee announced that the Build Back Better Act, the Biden administration’s $3.5 trillion jobs and infrastructure package, will include $15...
| | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyAs lawmakers scramble to finalize a historic jobs and infrastructure package, huge fights are underway to figure out how to fund it. The simplest, most effective, and most popular way is to tax the extremely wealthy, like the billionaires who’ve seen their collective...
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| Sep 15, 2021 | RoundupLast week, millions of families who’d been receiving enhanced federal unemployment insurance during the pandemic were cut off. About 1 in 10 Americans live in households that were affected by the move. As Rebekah Entralgo reports this week, 25 states tried to...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyI remember finding out I was about to become a mother. I felt the fear taking hold of me. My brain stopped. I remember crying but had no tears. I remember trying to run, but I couldn’t move. No one had prepared me for motherhood — my own mother abandoned me when...
