| Jan 17, 2024 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyFrom childhood on, I’ve spent my life haunted by the ghost of poverty. A myth exists in America that financial well-being follows if we just work hard and make good choices. But it’s not that simple. At some point, most of us face unforeseen obstacles — from physical...
| Oct 26, 2023 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIn 2020, U.S. households annually making over $1 million faced fewer tax audits than households with incomes low enough to qualify for the Earned Income Tax Credit. That had never happened before. In part, you can blame the Trump administration. But conservatives in...
| Sep 27, 2023 | Economy / Business“I’ve seen lots of funny men,” Oklahoma troubadour Woody Guthrie once sang about outlaws. “Some’ll rob you with a six gun / Some with a fountain pen.” That could apply today to Clayton Bennett, a multimillionaire Oklahoma City banker who’s regularly wielded his...
| Jul 18, 2023 | Economy / Business|Food / Farming|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIf my decades of work as a social worker taught me one great lesson, it’s this. Poverty is an entrenched system of political choices by self-serving lawmakers, not a personal failing of ordinary people. Poverty is not, and never has been, a crime. I’ve worked with...
| May 24, 2023 | Economy / Business|HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyThe news sure makes it sound like President Biden and Republicans have been haggling over the national debt. But that’s not what’s really happening — not at all. President Biden wants to spend more money and run up the deficit, the story goes. Republican House Speaker...
