| May 10, 2023 | Economy / Business|HP FeaturedIn recent months, stories of rideshare drivers and delivery workers carjacked, robbed, or even killed on the job have made headlines around the country. Now, growing research shows that there is an all-out crisis in app-based work. This May, Gig Workers Rising,...
| Apr 5, 2023 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP FeaturedWith new outrages erupting every day, I find some comfort in knowing that we the people have at least eliminated certain particularly ugly plutocratic abuses. Child labor, for example — outlawed in 1938, right? Well, outlawed, yes; stopped, no. Recent reports reveal...
| Dec 22, 2021 | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyOld-school home-improvement contractors have a piece of folk wisdom they love to share with prospective clients. “Listen,” they like to say. “I can do this job fast, I can do it cheap, or I can do it well. But I can’t do all three.” This wisdom has been around...
| Sep 15, 2021 | Economy / Business|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyAn estimated 9 million Americans got the rug pulled out from under them over Labor Day weekend as enhanced pandemic federal unemployment benefits expired, leaving millions of families in the lurch during a record-breaking season for COVID-19 cases and...
| Sep 8, 2021 | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyCorporate acolytes and right-wing moralists constantly preach to laboring stiffs about the uplifting dignity of work. Of course, that’s “dignity” as defined and controlled by corporate elites, not by workers, and the reward for it frequently includes on-the-job...
