| Mar 8, 2023 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIs your salary less than $160,200? If so, you’re among the 94 percent of American workers who pay into Social Security all year long. Thanks to a loophole that exclusively benefits the affluent, income above that amount simply isn’t taxed for Social Security. That...
| Mar 1, 2023 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyJewish communities across the country have been targeted with violence or harassment as anti-semitic hate crimes reach record levels. In late January, a man tossed a Molotov cocktail — a firebomb — into the entrance of a New Jersey synagogue in the middle of the...
| | Economy / Business|HP SubfeaturedI’m a proud Air Force veteran. But in the service, I had little to no say over the decisions made for myself or my team. I knew that when I left the military, my next job would be a union job. Now I’ve worked as a union broadband technician for seven years. I get a...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured“The Wreck of the Old 97” is a classic bluegrass song recounting a spectacular train crash in 1903, caused by the company’s demand that the engineer speed down a dangerous track to deliver cargo on time. Fully 120 years later we have the “Wreck of the Norfolk...
| Feb 22, 2023 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyI’m one of the 84 million Americans who get our health care through Medicaid. And I’m one of the 18 million who might lose it starting this spring unless our policymakers take action. I went to college, got a degree, and planned on being self-sufficient. But in my...
| | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyMy favorite chair is surrounded by piles of art supplies. There’s yarn stacked high in baskets. Metal boxes of paint and brushes are squashed next to jewelry supplies teetering off the edge of a too-full shelf. I want so badly to want to clean. But then I invariably...
