| Sep 4, 2024 | Economy / Business|HP FeaturedMost of us believe in fair pay for honest work. So why aren’t low-wage workers better paid? After 30 years of research, I can tell you it’s not because employers don’t have the cash. It’s because profitable corporations spend that money on their stock prices and CEOs...
| Apr 17, 2024 | Economy / Business|Food / Farming|HP SubfeaturedIn 2004, I was a single mom raising three daughters on my own. I worked three jobs, including an overnight shift as a translator at our local hospital, to make ends meet. Every time I stood in line at the supermarket, I worried about what I would have to put back on...
| Jan 31, 2024 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP SubfeaturedMany Americans are still experiencing the sticker shock they first faced two years ago when inflation hit its peak. But if inflation is down now, why are families still feeling the pinch? The answer lies in corporate profits — and we have the data to prove it. Our new...
| May 17, 2023 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedEver since the middle of the 20th century, our history textbooks have applauded the reform movement that put an end to the child-labor horrors that ran widespread throughout the early Industrial Age. Now those horrors are reappearing. The number of kids employed in...
| Feb 22, 2023 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyYour doctor is out and unable to see you now. Not out for lunch or out on vacation — but out of medical practice. America’s perverse health care system, which sublimates care to the profiteering demands of Wall Street speculators who essentially own today’s system,...
Page 2 of 21«12345...1020...»Last »
