We Can Break The Cycle of Poverty, Mental Illness, and Prison

| Feb 28, 2024 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyDuring my time in prison, I lived in hell. I witnessed horrific abuse, suffered from a critical lack of mental health care, and was treated as less than human. Guards even taunted inmates that we couldn’t change the system because our right to vote would be stripped...

Backlash: Women’s History Month in a Post-Roe World

| | Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyIt’s 2024, but it feels like we’re back in 1991 this Women’s History Month. Back then, President George H.W. Bush was following in the footsteps of his predecessor Ronald Reagan by continuing to appoint conservative judges to the federal bench, and Roe v. Wade was...

It’s Not ‘Inflation’ — We’re Just Getting Ripped Off. Here’s Proof.

| Jan 31, 2024 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP SubfeaturedMany Americans are still experiencing the sticker shock they first faced two years ago when inflation hit its peak. But if inflation is down now, why are families still feeling the pinch? The answer lies in corporate profits — and we have the data to prove it. Our new...

Lawmakers Must Fully Fund the WIC Program

| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Food / Farming|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyWhen my grandmother was raising my cousins and me, she taught us to work hard and go after what we wanted. I didn’t know it at the time, but we were in poverty. Scared of judgment and bureaucracy, my grandmother refused to apply for assistance programs. But that meant...

The Case for Free Public Transit

| Jan 10, 2024 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedWhat if there were a way for your city to reduce traffic and pollution while putting cash in the pockets of residents? There is: free public transit. And in many places, it’s already happening. In late 2023, Albuquerque, New Mexico became the largest U.S. city to...

The High Cost of Low Holiday Prices

| Dec 6, 2023 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / Democracy’Tis the season for holiday sales. But on the other side of the planet, there’s a high cost for those low prices. This is especially true for “fast fashion,” the clothing equivalent of a Big Mac: attractive, affordable, and throwaway. The Bangladeshi women who toil as...