| Feb 8, 2023 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyPresident Joe Biden took full advantage of his State of the Union address to celebrate his administration’s victories for hard-working U.S. families and set the tone for progress and possibility for the next two years. While the country is still suffering from...
| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyRepublicans are resorting to their age-old tactic of manufactured moral outrage to distract from the fact that they have no economic agenda other than to enrich the already wealthy. It couldn’t have been clearer than in the GOP response to President Biden’s State of...
| Feb 1, 2023 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyCliff Carlton was the 10th of 11 children and one of three still living at home when his father, a coal miner, died unexpectedly at 67. Only his dad’s Social Security benefits, along with vegetables from the family’s small farm in southwestern Virginia, kept the...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyWe all need physical safety before we can do anything else. Without a roof over our heads, that sense of security is impossible. And with two small children in tow, things get scary. And after fleeing a dangerous domestic situation with my baby and 9-year-old son,...
| Jan 25, 2023 | Economy / BusinessI don’t usually cover sob stories, but this one is so touching it might make you cry. Or throw up. It’s about some workers who toiled all last year in the caverns of New York City, only to find at year’s end that their pay was being cut by up to 50 percent. Actually,...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracySometimes the daily news about our billionaires just doesn’t make sense. Last year, for instance, ended with a torrent of news stories about how poorly the world’s billionaires fared in 2022. Bloomberg tagged the 12 months that had just gone past “a year to forget,”...
