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A Chance to Protect Our Essential Workers

| Aug 18, 2021 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyImmigration agents arrested over 600 undocumented workers at poultry plants across central Mississippi two years ago in what remains the largest workplace raid in U.S. history. This August, on the two-year anniversary of that raid, immigrant rights advocates demanded...

The Jobs Bill Must Protect DACA Holders

| Jul 28, 2021 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyRepublican officials in Texas are celebrating after successfully suing the federal government over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. DACA has been a GOP target since 2012, when President Obama created it to protect undocumented young people...

Cubans Are Suffering. Biden Needs to End the Embargo.

| Jul 21, 2021 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThe anti-government protests that erupted in various Cuban cities this July received enormous coverage in the U.S. press. But most of the coverage either underplayed or failed to mention the critical role played by the U.S. embargo in creating the blackouts and...

There’s No ‘Labor Shortage.’ There’s a Wage Shortage.

| Jun 9, 2021 | Economy / BusinessAt a recent congressional hearing on America’s so-called “labor shortage,” megabanker Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, offered this insight: “People actually have a lot of money, and they don’t particularly feel like going back to work.” Dimon is a billionaire who may...

Make Normalization With Cuba a Priority

| | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracySilvia from Miami, Eduardo from Hialeah, Abel from Lakeland. The names pour in on the donations page for “Syringes to Cuba” as Carlos Lazo promotes the campaign on his popular Facebook livestream. An energetic Cuban American high school teacher in Seattle, Lazo...