| Nov 6, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyThis is my fifth unpaid internship. I’ve worked for non-profit organizations that couldn’t have afforded to pay me and a fancy magazine that could. Some were worth it, others weren’t. But I accepted each one with the same sense of desperation and...
| | Economy / BusinessScrooge has come early this year. He’s already kicking our Tiny Tims. This holiday season, kids in America’s poorest families will have less to eat. November 1 brought $5 billion in new cuts to the nation’s food stamp program, now officially known as...
| | Food / FarmingWould you believe that the nation’s cabinet has approved an executive order defining food as a legal right? No, not our nation. India has taken this bold step. Malnourishment afflicts 42 percent of Indian children, and part of their government’s response...
| Oct 30, 2013 | Economy / BusinessIn 1930, an obscure lawsuit against Bethlehem Steel unearthed some corporate data that would quickly outrage Great Depression-era America. Bethlehem CEO W. R. Grace, Americans learned, had grabbed $1.6 million in personal compensation the year before. That revelation...
| | Economy / BusinessWhere is the intellectual heir to Henry Ford, the great entrepreneur and inventor? He hated unions but famously boosted his workers’ pay so they could afford to buy the cars they built. There are far more jobs now assembling burgers than cars. And the people who...
