Health Care is Sick — and Profit is the Disease

| Feb 22, 2023 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyYour doctor is out and unable to see you now. Not out for lunch or out on vacation — but out of medical practice. America’s perverse health care system, which sublimates care to the profiteering demands of Wall Street speculators who essentially own today’s system,...

Don’t Trust Wall Street with Nursing Homes

| Feb 15, 2023 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedThere are industries that occasionally do something rotten. And there are industries like Big Oil, Big Pharma, and Big Tobacco that persistently do rotten things. Then there is the nursing home industry — where rottenness has become a core business principle.  The...

Credit Card Holders Get Protection from Fraud. Shouldn’t EBT Users, Too?

| | Economy / Business|Food / Farming|HP SubfeaturedA few years ago, someone stole my card information and took over $100. You’d assume the bank or credit card company would reimburse that fraud, right?  Not for me, unfortunately. The skimmed card number was for my Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) card, which allows...

Biden Is Right: You Shouldn’t Pay a Higher Tax Rate Than Billionaires

| Feb 8, 2023 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIn his third State of the Union address, President Joe Biden renewed his call for a billionaire minimum income tax, demanding Congress take action on a broken tax system that rewards wealth over work. “Pass my proposal for a billionaire minimum tax,” Biden proclaimed....

The GOP’s Culture Wars Would Be Laughable If They Weren’t Deadly

| | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyRepublicans are resorting to their age-old tactic of manufactured moral outrage to distract from the fact that they have no economic agenda other than to enrich the already wealthy.  It couldn’t have been clearer than in the GOP response to President Biden’s State of...

Social Security Is America’s Contract with Working People

| Feb 1, 2023 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyCliff Carlton was the 10th of 11 children and one of three still living at home when his father, a coal miner, died unexpectedly at 67. Only his dad’s Social Security benefits, along with vegetables from the family’s small farm in southwestern Virginia, kept the...