A Dangerous New Approach to Homelessness

| Nov 13, 2025 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyNo one wants people sleeping on our streets. For years, experts have agreed the best way to prevent that is to create more housing everyday people can afford, and to provide housing — coupled with supportive services for addiction, mental health, and other help — to...

Mass Deportations Aren’t Helping Workers. They’re Tanking The Economy.

| Nov 12, 2025 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyDonald Trump rode back into office by leaning on the same faux populist refrain he weaponized a decade ago: immigrants are “taking your jobs!” Since then, Trump has launched an immigration crackdown of historic proportions. Yet rather than turning things around for...

States Must Learn the Lessons of the Great Recession Before It’s Too Late

| Nov 5, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAs states across America brace for economic turbulence, it’s tempting to look back to the Great Recession, when states also faced significant revenue shortfalls, for a playbook: cut budgets first, wait for federal relief, then (maybe) restore spending later. But the...

It’s Not Only the White House Getting Demolished. Trump’s Gutting Affordable Housing, Too.

| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyPresident Trump isn’t only bulldozing the East Wing of the White House with the help of his billionaire friends. The former developer is also taking a wrecking ball to affordable housing. Amid historically high housing costs, declining wages, and record homelessness,...

Rural America Has a Plan. Congress Needs to Show Up.

| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyThe House of Representatives took all of October off. In fact, the GOP-led chamber has only worked 14 days since July 25. As Congress sat idle, hardworking Americans faced rising health care costs, farmers battled dangerous market instability, and millions may lose...

Democracy Begins Where We Live

| Oct 29, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyOn a beautiful fall Saturday, residents in Floyd County, Indiana packed a church to ask city council members about the local budget. One county over, mothers shared concerns about a new data center, rising utility costs, education cuts, and corporate tax giveaways....