| Jul 22, 2020 | Economy / Business|HP SubfeaturedFor months now, uprisings against structural racism have spurred discussions about how to bridge the nation’s racial divides — including the enormous racial wealth gap. Many are calling on their governments to pull funds out of police budgets and redirect that money...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAlmost nobody expects jail time for failure to pay a parking ticket or highway toll, right? But in most U.S. cities, public transit riders can be charged with a misdemeanor for failure to pay the full fare. The punishment for “fare evasion” is on par with that of...
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| Jul 15, 2020 | RoundupEach day, the pandemic gets worse. While Jim Hightower condemns the GOP’s response — which includes trying to throw 23 million Americans off their health care by getting Obamacare thrown out — my colleague Lindsay Koshgarian offers another idea. What...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracySix months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the disease is raging anew because corporate-serving public officials rushed to “open the economy,” causing more infections and deaths. So, gosh, what to do now? Of course, let’s take away the healthcare coverage of some 23...
