| Oct 19, 2022 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyMy wife and I recently had the tremendous misfortune of needing to buy a car. Car prices, you may know, reached an all-time high between this year and last. There are now rumblings of a gradual decline, but rising interest rates will likely offset any savings. So with...
| Sep 14, 2022 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedThe heat. It’s never been hotter in our lifetimes. This past spring the mercury hit nearly 124 degrees Fahrenheit in the Pakistani city of Jacobabad — “just below the conventional estimate for the threshold of human survival,” notes science writer David Wallace-Wells....
| | Economy / Business|HP FeaturedThe late Barbara Ehrenreich was best known for her 2001 bestseller Nickel and Dimed, which showed that hard-working people simply weren’t making it in America. But Ehrenreich, who passed away this September at 81, made an equally great contribution to economic justice...
| Aug 31, 2022 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP FeaturedWe’re told that higher education is one of the best ways to overcome poverty. But for many indebted borrowers, it’s been just the opposite. Since 1980, the cost of college has increased at nearly 9 times the rate of paychecks. If you’re poor and don’t join...
| Jul 27, 2022 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyWorking families are getting hammered by inflation while corporate leaders and politicians are calling for belt-tightening. But there’s one group of Americans that’s actually profited from increasing prices. Big company CEOs have enjoyed soaring pay, even as their...
