A California city is asking retirees, stay-at-home parents, and students to work 20 hours a week at struggling businesses to help ease a labor crunch, a report says

By Mary Hanbury, Yahoo News A California city is asking retirees, stay-at-home parents, and students to fill empty jobs for 6 months, according to a report. This is a temporary solution to help ease the labor shortage. Businesses across the US are struggling to find workers. A city […]

Who pays America’s taxes?

The Week Staff During the debate over spending bills, Democrats proposed raising taxes on the wealthy. Do the rich pay a fair share? Here’s everything you need to know: What do the wealthy pay? Generally, a much lower percentage of their incomes than the middle class. A White […]

Son of Khalil Islam is happy his father’s been exonerated in Malcom X killing, ‘but there’s still sadness’

By Brigid Kennedy, The Week The son of newly-exonerated Khalil Islam, who was wrongfully convicted in the 1965 assasination of Malcolm X, explained Thursday that while he’s happy a judge cleared his late father’s name, sadness nevertheless lingers. “It almost sounds casual to me that he’s been exonerated,” […]

“Critical Race Theory” Is White History

By Kali Holloway, The Nation Conservatives are rebranding an inclusive, honest accounting of American history as inherently anti-white. For more than a year now, conservatives have been waging war against the misdefined conception of critical race theory that they themselves created. The right-wing campaign against so-called CRT largely […]