Congress Cut Medicaid. It Could Devastate Rural Hospital Staffing.

| Dec 10, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedWhen Dr. Ed Paul visits Nogales, Arizona, he sees well-trained, hardworking doctors and nurses. Yet as in many smaller towns and rural communities, its health care staffing, infrastructure, and funding doesn’t meet the needs of residents. People who need health care...

The Public Pays the Price for Big Tech’s Data Centers

| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP FeaturedBill Gates recently made headlines by suggesting that climate change is no longer a priority, but the American public begs to differ. In this last election, climate change was a defining issue in states like Virginia and Georgia, where voters grappled with rising...

If People Are Going Hungry, Why Can’t We Feed Them?

| Dec 3, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP FeaturedThe recent government shutdown was a stark reminder that 42 million people across the United States rely on federal food benefits. That’s 12 percent of the nation’s population that lawmakers and President Donald Trump threw under the bus, cutting off SNAP benefits in...

Less for Health Care, More for the Pentagon

| Nov 20, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Peace / SecurityThe government shutdown ended with a failure to solve the problem of steeply rising health insurance premiums. The GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” which slashed programs like Medicaid and SNAP to fund tax cuts for the wealthy and a $1 trillion Pentagon, allows tax credits...

The Government Is Open. Now It Needs to Get America Moving — Literally.

| Nov 19, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedDespite the government reopening, Americans are still suffering from the chaos of an administration that is out of touch with the needs of the people. Though federal workers are back on the job and agencies are resuming their work, countless essential programs are...

Without Medicaid, Many Rural Americans Will Die

| Nov 13, 2025 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThis summer, Congress and President Trump cut over $1 trillion from Medicaid to help offset the cost of tax cuts for billionaires. Those Medicaid cuts are scheduled to start kicking in after next year’s midterms, so it’s time for everyone to start understanding the...