| Mar 17, 2020 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Featured|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAs Americans do everything they can to stay safe and limit their exposure to COVID-19, we are seeing more clearly the great divides in our society. While the virus doesn’t discriminate, we are seeing that its impacts certainly do. In a pandemic, there’s a huge...
| Jan 22, 2020 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyWith Greta Gerwig’s new take on Luisa May Alcott’s classic 19th century novel, Little Women, in theaters, I decided to reread the book. The novel communicates Alcott’s beliefs about proper morality and gender roles through stories of a family of four...
| Jan 15, 2020 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyA Google search for “paying school lunch debt” reveals a long list of recent news stories about good Samaritans paying off the school lunch debt of children whose families cannot afford it. A Fredonia, New York man paid off $2,000 in school lunch debt in...
| Jan 14, 2020 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyAs we celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., it’s natural to remember his courageous advocacy for racial equity. But before he was assassinated, King had also begun to broaden his efforts to unify the around economic justice. That’s worth remembering today....
| Dec 9, 2019 | Editors Picks|Environment / Health|Food / Farming|Rights / DemocracyYou may have heard about the Trump administration’s latest attack on very poor Americans: a punitive new restriction that will cut SNAP benefits for 688,000 people. SNAP, formerly known as food stamps, is our country’s most popular and effective nutrition assistance...
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