| Jan 10, 2024 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyThis January marks what would have been Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 95th birthday. Nearly a century after the late civil rights leader’s birth, it’s a good time to reflect on the work still to be done. Just over 60 years ago, in his famous “I Have A Dream” speech at...
| Dec 13, 2023 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyAfter a year of economic hardship, climate disasters, and war, few could be blamed for feeling like our leaders have let us down. As we look ahead to a new year, I find it helpful to remember examples of those who not only saw the problem clearly, but brought people...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIt’s been a difficult few years for poor people in this country. Just a year after the pandemic era safety net expansion saw poverty fall to its lowest level on record, we saw a historic 60 percent increase as those programs expired. Women and children have been among...
| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIt’s high giving season in America. From Angel Trees and red buckets to year-end appeals, nonprofits and charities receive more donations during the five week holiday stretch than any other on the calendar. Millions of people whose incomes are too low to take...
| Dec 6, 2023 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / Democracy’Tis the season for holiday sales. But on the other side of the planet, there’s a high cost for those low prices. This is especially true for “fast fashion,” the clothing equivalent of a Big Mac: attractive, affordable, and throwaway. The Bangladeshi women who toil as...
| | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyToo many of us have to depend on sheer good luck to make it — especially when it comes to putting a roof over our heads. We grow up hearing that hard work alone will lift us above the hardships we’re born into. But many of us also watched as our parents worked two and...
