| Apr 29, 2020 | Economy / BusinessIn this horrible time of economic collapse, it is truly touching to see so many corporate chieftains reaching out in solidarity with the hard-hit working class. We know they’re doing this because they keep telling us they are. Practically every brand-name giant has...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP SubfeaturedMeat processing plants are high risk for spreading COVID-19, and many are shutting down. Animals due for processing have nowhere to go, and they are being culled. Workers there aren’t treated a great deal better. I’ve interviewed one meatpacker who worked at a pork...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedThe $2 trillion dollar bailout passed by Congress — the CARES Act — is supposed to protect families and businesses struggling because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The law also established an inspector general to ensure that corporations that access the $500 billion in...
| Apr 22, 2020 | Economy / BusinessOne public service that people really like and count on is the post office, which literally delivers for us. Anti-government ideologues and privatization dogmatists, however, hate the very word “public,” and they’ve long sought to demonize the U.S. Postal Service,...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyI don’t know how you’re spending your quarantine, but I’ve spent the past few weeks wondering how to legally obtain marijuana. In states where it’s legal, people are stocking up on weed like it’s toilet paper. But I live in Wisconsin, where it most certainly isn’t. I...
| | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyI was a child when I understood my immigrant family was wanted for labor — and for labor only. Every day before dawn, I would hear my father pray on his knees. He would pray for our health, our safety, and — most importantly — for nothing out of the ordinary to happen...
