| Dec 13, 2023 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIt’s high giving season in America. From Angel Trees and red buckets to year-end appeals, nonprofits and charities receive more donations during the five week holiday stretch than any other on the calendar. Millions of people whose incomes are too low to take...
| Dec 6, 2023 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / Democracy’Tis the season for holiday sales. But on the other side of the planet, there’s a high cost for those low prices. This is especially true for “fast fashion,” the clothing equivalent of a Big Mac: attractive, affordable, and throwaway. The Bangladeshi women who toil as...
| Nov 8, 2023 | Economy / Business|HP SubfeaturedWorking people the world over have celebrated the first of May as “International Labor Day” since 1886, when workers in the United States struggling for an eight-hour day staged a May 1 national protest. Thanks to the new deal America’s auto workers have signed with...
| Oct 26, 2023 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIn 2020, U.S. households annually making over $1 million faced fewer tax audits than households with incomes low enough to qualify for the Earned Income Tax Credit. That had never happened before. In part, you can blame the Trump administration. But conservatives in...
| Oct 25, 2023 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedThere is nothing quite as pitiful as whiny billionaires. And the whiniest of all is the richest — Elon Musk. This self-entitled bully runs over anyone in his way, then whines when they protest. Elon’s latest high-pitched screech was prompted by public demands that his...
