| Sep 7, 2023 | Economy / Business|HP SubfeaturedShe only wanted a few hours at her dying mother’s bedside. But her bosses at Twin Rivers Paper in Madawaska, Maine forced her to work overtime on her day off. About an hour and a half into the mandatory shift, the woman’s mother died. Workers are battling harder than...
| Aug 23, 2023 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedThis Labor Day, it’s time to talk about disabled workers. This issue is personal for me. I debated for years about whether to disclose my disability status to potential employers. I have rheumatoid arthritis, which is largely managed thanks to medication....
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIt’s now been 60 years since the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom — and the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. At the rally, Dr. King famously proclaimed that all people, Black as well as white, have a “promissory note” from their...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThis summer has been a hot one for labor as strikes and other worker actions have swept the country. At the same time, workers have been toiling in one of the hottest summers ever recorded due to the ongoing climate emergency. This has put millions at greater risk of...
| Aug 2, 2023 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / SecurityIf there’s one thing that should be subject to rigorous debate and the will of the people, it’s decisions about war and peace. Unfortunately, that’s not what we got with the huge military policy bill recently passed by the House and Senate. Somehow, the annual...
| | HP SubfeaturedWhen I was a little girl, my parents bought me a Barbie — a blonde, blue-eyed doll who I played with for years before I ever met a blond, blue-eyed person. My doll set the standard for beauty — one that was out of reach of a brown-skinned, dark-haired kid whose body...
