| Mar 15, 2023 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyHow can we measure what our leaders value? One way is to look at their budgets. On March 9, President Biden rolled out a budget proposal that he’ll ask Congress to consider. Presidential budget proposals seldom pass in the form they’re presented, but they offer clues...
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| Mar 8, 2023 | Rights / DemocracyMany of today’s right-wing governors and state legislators have a problem. By constantly pushing an extremist ideological agenda of nonsense about nutty conspiracy theories — while imposing autocratic laws to ban everything from voting to library books — they’ve...
| | 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...
| | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyBrad Greve has been a Scout leader for more than 20 years. The Davenport, Iowa retiree leads 50-mile canoe trips on Minnesota’s Boundary Waters that test teens’ mettle while teaching them essential skills. Greve told a story recently where two boys, despite being...
| 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...
