| Oct 28, 2020 | Economy / Business|HP SubfeaturedLet’s say you’re a millionaire. That’s a lot of money, right? Now let’s say you’re a billionaire. That’s a lot more money! But how much more? Think of all those dollars as seconds on a clock. A million seconds would total 11 days – but a billion seconds equals nearly...
| 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...
| Jul 14, 2020 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyAfter graduating from college last year, Hayat Rahmeto moved back in with her parents and planned to work two jobs to save money for law school. Then the pandemic hit. She lost one job, with Delta Airlines, and the prospects for finding another were bleak....
| May 20, 2020 | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyMonty Bennett was just another faceless right-wing millionaire on the long list of high-dollar donors to Donald Trump — until he suddenly surfaced in April as the nation’s biggest bagger of government cash in the emergency Paycheck Protection Program. Bennett got $76...