Economy / Business - OtherWords

Small Businesses Like Mine Need Paid Family and Medical Leave

Illnesses and injury shouldn’t bankrupt workers or their employers. Let’s pool resources to protect all of us.

Too often we get sticker shock at the cost of public policies, even when they’d actually save us money.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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