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This Women’s History Month, We Won’t Renegotiate Our Place in the Economy

This Women’s History Month, We Won’t Renegotiate Our Place in the Economy

| Mar 1, 2023 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyA lot has changed since 2011, the year I graduated high school. Tiktok was invented, there are now 12 Kardashian grandchildren, and I’m about to turn 30. But some things never change. Back then, at the height of the Tea Party era, conservative Republicans threatened...
Two Years In, We Need to Learn the Lessons of This Pandemic

Two Years In, We Need to Learn the Lessons of This Pandemic

| Mar 23, 2022 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyTwo years ago I was panicking, making hundreds of phone calls to postpone my wedding that was a few days away. It was March 2020. A global pandemic had reached the United States and changed each of our lives in ways we never imagined. Millions of Americans would lose...
Affordable Child Care Is the Boost Our Economy Needs

Affordable Child Care Is the Boost Our Economy Needs

| Dec 22, 2021 | Economy / Business|HP SubfeaturedChild care is one of the biggest expenses many families face — in much of the country, it can run higher than college tuition. Could a national child care program ease that burden? We’ve come close before. During World War II, the federal government provided child...
Inflation Is Complicated, But Making It Better Doesn’t Have to Be

Inflation Is Complicated, But Making It Better Doesn’t Have to Be

| Nov 17, 2021 | Economy / Business|HP FeaturedMany Americans are noticing the rising price of goods from sour cream to carburetors as politicians sound the alarm on an inflation crisis. You may be wondering what single force would cause the cost of a dairy product to go up at the same time as the cost of a car...
Upend This Damaging Narrative About Spending

Upend This Damaging Narrative About Spending

| Nov 10, 2021 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe drama over the Build Back Better Act has revealed the power of narrative in our political landscape. It is not enough to put forward policy proposals that actually help people, pay for them with taxes on the wealthiest, and then try to pass those proposals into...
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