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Southern Workers Are Defying History

Southern Workers Are Defying History

| May 31, 2023 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyWorkers at Blue Bird Corporation in Fort Valley, Georgia, launched a union drive to secure better wages, work-life balance, and a voice on the job. The company resisted them. History defied them. Geography worked against them. But they stood together, believed in...
We Need a Civilian Climate Corps

We Need a Civilian Climate Corps

| Aug 25, 2021 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedWhen you think of the New Deal, what comes to mind? For many Americans, the era has an enduring physical legacy in our parks, tree lines, and trails. On Orcas Island in Washington, hundreds of young men with the Civilian Conservation Corps built Moran State...
We All Need Transit — Whether We Ride It Or Not

We All Need Transit — Whether We Ride It Or Not

| Mar 17, 2021 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedI owe my college education to a lot of things, but two come especially to mind. One was a scholarship. The other was public transit. I can still remember my commute on those early winter days. Not five minutes since I’d walked from my car to the train station, I could...
A New Plan to End the Unemployment Crisis

A New Plan to End the Unemployment Crisis

| Sep 23, 2020 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedIn one of the world’s richest countries, nearly 14 million people are unemployed and one out of five families with children cannot afford adequate food. As families go hungry, the Trump administration says it has the “luxury to watch and see” what happens. Trump...
We Need More Than Disaster Recovery — We Need Green Jobs

We Need More Than Disaster Recovery — We Need Green Jobs

| Sep 2, 2020 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedAs I watched Hurricane Laura churn towards the Gulf Coast, I felt a familiar knot in my stomach. As a longtime first responder to natural disasters, I felt the same way before Hurricane Katrina in 2005, when Hurricane Michael hit the Florida Panhandle in 2018, and...
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