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A Cruel and Short-Sighted Attack on Low-Income Communities

A Cruel and Short-Sighted Attack on Low-Income Communities

| Oct 22, 2025 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyThe Trump administration has eliminated the entire staff of the Treasury Department’s Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund. This is more than bureaucratic reshuffling — it’s an assault on one of the most effective and bipartisan vehicles for...
Even the Pope Is Fed Up With Overpaid CEOs

Even the Pope Is Fed Up With Overpaid CEOs

| Sep 24, 2025 | Economy / Business|HP SubfeaturedAmericans are fed up with overpaid CEOs. And one of those fed up Americans happens to be the pope. In his first interview since becoming the leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV warned about the “continuously wider gap between the income levels of the working...
With Gerrymandering, Your Local Rep. Isn’t Local — And Isn’t Yours

With Gerrymandering, Your Local Rep. Isn’t Local — And Isn’t Yours

| Aug 27, 2025 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIn a 2006 documentary, I assailed Texas Republican lawmakers for ramming a brutish gerrymandering scheme into law, doing my report from a street sign in central Austin. That sign was the exact location the GOP had used as the pin point for slicing up the city’s one...
CEOs Are Getting Richer. Everyone Else Is Falling Behind.

CEOs Are Getting Richer. Everyone Else Is Falling Behind.

| Aug 21, 2025 | Economy / Business|HP FeaturedThe gap between CEO compensation and median worker pay at Starbucks hit 6,666 to 1 last year. In other words, to make as much money as their CEO made in 2024, typical baristas would’ve had to start brewing macchiatos around the time humans first invented the wheel....
10 Ways the GOP Budget Will Make Life Worse for Americans

10 Ways the GOP Budget Will Make Life Worse for Americans

| Jul 9, 2025 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThe GOP’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which narrowly passed Congress and was recently signed by President Trump, represents the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich since chattel slavery. Here are just 10 of the worst things about it. 1. It’s going to...
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