| Mar 10, 2021 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Featured|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyWe used every coat, blanket, sweater, and pair of socks in the house — even when we slept. We only cooked once a day. We couldn’t bathe or do laundry. Unlike many families, we had water — but it looked almost like milk coming out of the tap. It was the Texas freeze,...
| Mar 3, 2021 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyI’m one of America’s millions of essential workers. We’re working in your children’s schools, at your grocery stores, and at drive-through windows. We’re cleaning your homes. And we’re struggling so hard to make ends meet. Congress is debating whether to raise the...
| Feb 24, 2021 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyActor and activist Danny Glover traveled recently to the most-watched Amazon facility in the country — the Bessemer fulfillment center outside Birmingham, Alabama. The warehouse’s more than 5,800 predominantly Black workers are in the middle of a historic vote on...
| Feb 17, 2021 | HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyIn the wake of his second impeachment acquittal, Donald Trump proclaimed victory in what he called “the greatest witch hunt in the history of our Country.” Trump was acquitted. But the Senate hardly absolved him: A 57-to-43 majority concluded he had incited a riot....
| Feb 10, 2021 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyIf it’s passed by Congress, President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 relief proposal would do a lot more than fund relief payments and vaccine rollouts. It would also raise the wage floor for all U.S. workers — and give a particularly long overdue raise to restaurant servers,...
