Five Candidates on What It Will Take to Shatter the Most Stubborn Glass Ceiling “Part II of this discussion on the power of women in politics today” One of the upsides to running in 2020 is that nothing much is a shocker anymore. Porn stars and Russian hackers? The president of the United States, in […]

Madam President? Five Candidates on What It Will Take to Shatter the Most Stubborn Glass Ceiling ELIZABETH WARREN practically leaps off the armchair in her Washington, D.C., condo when it hits her. “I got here today courtesy of three bags of M&Ms and a very cooperative toddler,” she says. By here she means the candidacy […]

People Struggling The Most To Pay Back Student Loans Lots of people have student loans: more than 45 million people. They collectively owe about $1.6 trillion. That is, of course, a lot of debt — but amid all the national debate right now about what to do about it, it’s important to remember that not […]

Amazon Is Hiring 3,000 Work-from-Home Employees with Full Benefits The online retailer is looking for remote employees for customer service positions Amazon continues to be a source of both great deals and work-from-home jobs in 2019. The online retailer is currently hiring 3,000 new remote employees across 18 states for customer service positions. The customer […]

Part IV Of the Story “Black Farmers Discrimination” “It’s like working for Coca-Cola,” said David. “They are in the business of defending the agency, and they’re not trying to pay anyone… Even if someone has a compelling case, it goes to OGC and OGC figures out a way to draft something up … that basically […]

Part III Of the Story “Black Farmers Discrimination” But Wright disagrees. “I’m convinced he was never committed,” he said of Vilsack. “They were basically taking people’s land.” Not only did many farmers with SOL cases not receive relief, USDA actually foreclosed on some of them and attempted to foreclose on others before their cases were […]

Part II Of the Story “Black Farmers Discrimination” USDA / The New Food Economy In 1982, the United States Commission on Civil Rights found that USDA’s Farmers Home Administration (FmHA)—then the nation’s leading public lending institution for rural communities—had been so unresponsive to the needs of black farmers that it “may have hindered the efforts […]

How USDA distorted data to conceal decades of discrimination against black farmers A New investigation found that USDA promoted misleading data to depict a fictional renaissance in black farming. That narrative falsely inflated the department’s record on civil rights—and ultimately cost black farmers land, money, and agency. One week ago today, lawmakers convened the first […]

Seniors, Don’t Overlook These 6 Medicare ‘Freebies’ If you have Medicare or will soon, you probably know the basics of what it covers. But how much do you know about all the lesser-known benefits that are included with Medicare health insurance coverage? They aren’t exactly free, because Medicare isn’t free. But these included services have […]

How to Motivate Kids to Practice Hard Things Recent research can help us teach kids to practice the right way to reach their goals. According to a recent survey by the Society of Human Resource Management, 97 percent of employers say that reliability is a very or extremely important qualification for an entry-level job; it’s […]