| Dec 2, 2013 | Food / FarmingThe fast food industry is notorious for handing out lean paychecks to their burger flippers and fat ones to their CEOs. What’s less well-known is that taxpayers are actually subsidizing fast food incomes at both the bottom — and top — of the industry. Take, for...
| Nov 27, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyI love movies, but they’re usually about people I have nothing in common with. The new film Sunlight Jr. starring Naomi Watts and Matt Dillon so accurately portrays the difficult yet mundane lives of a working poor family in Florida that I was struck with a mix...
| | UncategorizedDeck the halls, this holiday season, with scenes of hunger. Struggling families all across America now have less food on their tables. Budget cuts that kicked into effect November 1 have lowered the nation’s average federal food stamp benefit to less than $1.40...
| | Environment / HealthEarth to climate change deniers: The vast majority of Americans are worried enough about global warming to want our government to help stop this scourge. This good news for people who believe science should drive our climate policy comes from a series of surveys...
| Nov 20, 2013 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week in OtherWords, Jill Richardson talks turkey, William A. Collins and I call for a new economy, and Marc Morial asks whether we’re becoming a nation of bullies. Be sure to check our blog, especially on Tuesdays. That’s when we run a bonus...
