| Oct 28, 2020 | HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyVoter mobilization is not easy in Metcalfe Park, a majority-Black neighborhood in Milwaukee scarred by poverty, racism, disenfranchisement, and neglect. “I don’t believe in voting,” one young Black woman told Melody McCurtis, who’s been going door-to-door to get out...
| Oct 7, 2020 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyFor all the time I’ve lived in this country, I’ve worked hard, serving others as a domestic worker. When I first came here from Dominica, a Caribbean island, I stumbled into a world where I felt like a mop bucket for wealthier white families. I had a life. I had a...
| Sep 23, 2020 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedIn one of the world’s richest countries, nearly 14 million people are unemployed and one out of five families with children cannot afford adequate food. As families go hungry, the Trump administration says it has the “luxury to watch and see” what happens. Trump...
| Sep 9, 2020 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyA deadline is looming. Millions of lives, trillions of dollars, and our democracy all hang on whether we show up to meet it. I don’t mean the election. I mean the census. Every 10 years, the Census Bureau attempts to count every person living in this country —...
| May 27, 2020 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP SubfeaturedIn some ways, this horrible pandemic has brought out the best in humanity. Where I live, neighbors are helping neighbors. A friend who cleans houses for a living says about half of her clients are no longer having their homes cleaned, but they are still paying her. I...
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