| Sep 11, 2019 | Economy / Business|Food / Farming|Rights / DemocracyWhile the Trumpistas are presently plowing a multibillion-dollar subsidy into big grain farms, they’re using a tangle of federal red tape to deny a meager level of food assistance to millions of poor families. To qualify for food aid, federal rules say that a family...
| Aug 5, 2019 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyNew coal standards proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are threatening to permanently undermine the federal government’s power to control power plant pollution. The new rule — which would empower states to decide how much they want to reduce their...
| Jul 31, 2019 | Economy / Business|Food / Farming|HP SubfeaturedThe Trump administration has proposed a rule that will cut an estimated 3 million eligible people off food stamps while depriving half a million eligible children of school lunch. I’ve been on food stamps. I spent most of my life with mental illness, and it was not...
| Jul 16, 2019 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIn 1968 — just a week after Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination — Congress passed the Fair Housing Act, or FHA. The law secured everyone’s right to housing regardless of race, national origin, disability, familial status, sex, or religion. The FHA protects people...
| Jul 3, 2019 | Editors Picks|HP Featured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyOver the past several weeks, the brutal terror that immigrants face at the hands of our government has come into even sharper focus. As reports surface about immigrant children sleeping on concrete floors and people being forced to drink water from toilets, one fact...
