| May 20, 2020 | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyMonty Bennett was just another faceless right-wing millionaire on the long list of high-dollar donors to Donald Trump — until he suddenly surfaced in April as the nation’s biggest bagger of government cash in the emergency Paycheck Protection Program. Bennett got $76...
| May 13, 2020 | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyThere’s a general sentiment today that multimillionaire corporate chieftains are pigs. But I think that’s unfair. To pigs. Pigs are remarkably intelligent animals with a sense of social responsibility to the common good of the group. Compare that to the pompous and...
| Apr 29, 2020 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedThe $2 trillion dollar bailout passed by Congress — the CARES Act — is supposed to protect families and businesses struggling because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The law also established an inspector general to ensure that corporations that access the $500 billion in...
| Apr 8, 2020 | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyWartime profiteering has been as common in our country as war itself. Indeed, during the American Revolution assorted corrupt merchants and traders lined their pockets by controlling the supply and jacking up the prices on various goods they sold to the Continental...
| Mar 17, 2020 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyWe all have to come together. We need to help each other. We don’t have time for politics as usual. In times of crisis like the current coronavirus pandemic, these sorts of calls for cooperation become the drumbeat of our daily lives. Unfortunately, no drumbeat ever...
