Did You Hear? Poverty Ended

| Nov 14, 2018 | Economy / BusinessSomeone needs to buy a Grassroots USA tour package for the members of Donald Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers, so they can at least visit the real world once in their lives. The three advisors are ivory tower ideologues whose sole professional expertise seems to...

You Can Teach Kids Hard Work, But Feed Them First

| Sep 5, 2018 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Food / Farming|Rights / DemocracyGrowing up, I hated being on “food stamps.” I hated being walked into a welfare office and inspected, queried to make sure we were really our mother’s children. I hated standing in line at the grocery store, knowing we weren’t going to be paying with...

Soon You Can’t Use Food Stamps at Farmers Markets — But That’s Not Half of It

| Jul 18, 2018 | Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP SubfeaturedThis week, I thought I would write about food stamps and farmers markets. People on food stamps, officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), receive their benefits on a card that can be read like a credit card. Crucial to allowing...

There’s an All-Out War on Kids, and Not Just on the Border

| Jul 3, 2018 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyDonald Trump’s choice to separate migrant children from their parents has unleashed a flood of outrage across the political spectrum. While the president has stepped back from separating families at the border, his solution is to imprison children with their parents,...

Family Separation: One Fire Out, Several Others Started

| Jun 27, 2018 | Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyOver the past few weeks, the news has been wall-to-wall coverage of immigrant children taken from their parents and mistreated at the hands of the U.S. government. Obviously, our first priority as a nation must be to end child concentration camps and to reunite...