Economy / Business - OtherWords

Paper Receipts Could Be the Next Plastic Straws

by Beth Porter

Paper receipts generate enormous amounts of waste each year — and hardly anyone needs them.

by Brian Wakamo

“Student-athletes” make billions for others while putting their own futures at risk.

by Jim Hightower

They’re building robots to siphon farm profits out of local communities and into the pockets of rich investors.

by Jill Richardson

Two-thirds of Americans — and nearly all Democratic presidential candidates — now agree that pot prohibition is more harmful than pot itself.

by John Sarbanes, Michael Brune

We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to protect our democracy — and our planet.

by Warren Alan Tidwell

Big relief groups often leave poor and rural areas on their own. That gives us an opportunity to come together.

by Chuck Collins

Conservatives want you to believe that not having to choose between paying for rent or medicine is Soviet-style tyranny.

by Jim Hightower

If you don’t keep on them once they’re elected, you can be sure special interests will.

by Hannah Estrada, Michael Estrada

We stood up to our senator to save our future. Will you join us?

by Jim Hightower

San Antonio told Jeff Bezos to beat it over a year before New York sent him packing.