| Dec 6, 2023 | Economy / Business|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...
| Oct 4, 2023 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP FeaturedAmazon is notorious for having one of highest injury rates in the warehouse industry. What’s less well known is that Amazon will ignore, overcomplicate, or outright deny workers their right to disability accommodations, forcing them to perform physically impossible...
| | Economy / Business|Food / Farming|HP SubfeaturedPresident Biden recently walked a picket line in solidarity with striking auto workers. An amazing sight. What could he do for an encore? He could stand before another major American corporation — Dollar General — holding a simple two-word placard: “For Shame.” Thanks...
| Aug 24, 2023 | Economy / Business|HP FeaturedEver get mad at a delivery driver for bringing your pizza late? I used to. Now I assume it’s late because an overpaid boss is probably making two employees do the job of 10. What changed? I worked for two years at a company with the kind of chronic understaffing that...
| May 22, 2023 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyI’ll be turning 67 soon. I’d love to be able to retire on my birthday. I’d celebrate by spending the afternoon at the mall with my daughter and then start planning little trips to visit relatives. But even after 22 years of working for Walmart, our nation’s largest...
