| Oct 22, 2018 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedNot too many romantic comedies have a major character who goes bankrupt paying the health care costs of a loved one with dementia. Although millions of American families can relate to this financial strain, it’s not typical rom-com material. But that’s what happens to...
| Oct 10, 2018 | Economy / Business|Editors PicksThe federal minimum wage hasn’t gone up in nearly 10 years. Yet with a stroke of his pen, Jeff Bezos of Amazon raised the wages of hundreds of thousands of the company’s lowest paid workers. In an age of extreme income inequality, this is leap in the right...
| Oct 9, 2018 | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyOn a recent night in Richmond, Virginia, speaker after speaker came forward to talk about the multidimensional reality of poverty. The setting was a hearing held by the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. “I’ve been working for years as a...
| Oct 1, 2018 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThis summer, the White House proposed selling off the United States Postal Service to private corporations. As a 22-year postal worker, I recently joined my coworkers, our families, and neighbors across the country to rally in support of our public Postal Service. Our...
| | Economy / Business|HP FeaturedWhile Americans were transfixed by Senate hearings over Brett Kavanaugh’s alleged sexual assaults, House Republicans quietly passed another enormous tax handout for the wealthiest Americans. Round one of this giveaway cost $2 trillion. Round two is even bigger —...
| Sep 26, 2018 | Economy / Business|Editors PicksOn the campaign trail, Donald Trump promised to stop U.S. corporations from offshoring American jobs on “day one” of his presidency. Just after his election, President Trump claimed to be following through on this promise when he supposedly brokered a deal...
