Good News for the 65 Million Americans Who Rely on Social Security

| Dec 7, 2022 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracySocial Security was on the ballot in Georgia’s December 6 run-off election. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock’s re-election victory there should be good news for Gold Star families, paralyzed veterans, seniors, and indeed all of Social Security’s over 65 million...

Congress: Help Struggling Families Before It’s Too Late

| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyRight around the time I heard lawmakers were considering a year-end package of tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations, my 12-year-old son’s bike broke. It felt like just another thing I couldn’t fix for him. Yet here are our lawmakers “fixing” things for those...

We Need a Smaller Pentagon

| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|HP Subfeatured|Peace / SecurityCan you imagine the audacity to fail a multi-trillion dollar audit of public funds, and then ask for even more of those taxpayer dollars? Pentagon leaders just did exactly that. This month news broke that the agency once again failed to pass a basic audit showing that...

The War on Immigrants Is a War on All Poor and Low-Income Americans

| Oct 19, 2022 | Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyIn states across the country, cynical politicians are turning a humanitarian crisis into political theater. New Hampshire Governor John Sununu recently announced that he was deploying the state National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border, joining around two-dozen mostly...

Republican ‘Solutions’ Will Make Inflation Worse

| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyMy wife and I recently had the tremendous misfortune of needing to buy a car. Car prices, you may know, reached an all-time high between this year and last. There are now rumblings of a gradual decline, but rising interest rates will likely offset any savings. So with...

Census Data Proves Anti-Poverty Measures Work

| Sep 22, 2022 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyThe U.S. Census Bureau recently reported that poverty dropped notably in 2021. Amid a pandemic and widespread economic pain, this is a significant accomplishment. There are three lessons here — about government programs, about how we measure poverty, and about how far...