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In OtherWords: May 3, 2017
This week in OtherWords, Josh Hoxie looks beyond the headlines at the myths behind inequality in our country. Is it because some people just don't work as hard? Or is it because we're all starting at different places? It's the latter, he says. Which means telling...
Fighting An Unfair System
The gap between the rich and poor has been growing for decades. Some claim this growing gap is the natural result of smart, hard workers getting what they deserve (fabulous wealth) and lazy, mediocre workers getting what they deserve, too (poverty). This framing is...
Wanted: 1.5 Billion Immigrants
During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump famously promised to deport every person living in this country without proper papers. I have another idea: The 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. should be granted citizenship immediately in a mass induction....
How Trump Could Actually Stop Offshoring
The New York Times recently ran a front-page story about 700 United Technologies Corp. workers who are seeing their jobs shipped off to Mexico. Along with their UTC Carrier counterparts in Indianapolis — who are losing 550 of their jobs to Mexico — this shift leaves...
Turns Out Running the Country Isn’t Like Running a Business
Our president says he wants to run the country like a business. But it turns out running the government isn't like running a business after all. Trump, for his part, says he's located the source of the problem: the Constitution. All those checks and balances our...
The Post Office Delivers, Literally
A half-dollar hardly counts as money these days — it won't even buy a cup of coffee. But pssssst… here's an amazing half-dollar bargain for you: A first-class postage stamp. For 50 cents, you get the stamp, 3 cents in change, and America's phenomenal network of post...
The Crazier Than Thou Contest
In OtherWords: April 26, 2017
This week's OtherWords package falls between two huge marches on Washington, along with hundreds of other communities. Last Saturday, Earth Day, the Science March brought hundreds of thousands of scientists and their supporters into the streets in perhaps the first...
Let’s Face It: The Coal Industry Is a Job Killer
When Donald Trump announced he was rolling back the Obama administration's signature climate rules this spring, he invited coal miners to share the limelight with him. He promised this would end the so-called "war on coal" and bring mining jobs back to coal country....
Women’s Health Is on the Chopping Block, Again
My nieces, who range in age from 17 to 25, grew up in a very different world from the one I knew coming of age in the 1970s. For their entire lives, abortion has been legal. And Planned Parenthood and other women’s clinics have served as a steadfast source of health...
