Opinion

Preventing student debt will take work
In recent months, Democrats seem more upset than ever about the level of student debt, with President Obama leading the charge to loan forgiveness. Bu...

Local markets nourish families and communities
Expanding access to fresh and local food is smart for people and the planet.If anyone’s ever looking for me on a Sunday morning, they’d be...

The millennial generation’s literacy crisis
Young workers need personal finance know-how to thrive.Summer is a time of endings and beginnings. For most of the approximately 1.8 million people wh...

Giving Ohio tire workers a fair shot
The tire and rubber industry has a proud history in Ohio from Akron to Findlay, and beyond. For over one hundred years, generations of Ohio workers ha...

Who will care for grandma?
Greedy CEOs are pitting elderly Americans against the workers who care for them.Who will take care of grandma?It’s a question we need to answer....

Hillary and her e-mails
It seems to me that the ongoing saga “Hillary and her e-mails” would be an unbelievable, almost comical fable if it weren’t such a s...

A supreme threat to American democracy
We’re one judge away from government of the corporations, by the corporations, and for the corporations.Here’s a little quiz you won’...

When children hurt, schools can help
Nobody should lose out on a good education because of a bad experience.What happens when children witness violence? It’s more common than you th...

Medicare turns 50
Fifty years ago this week, aging in America was forever changed for the better.At the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, President Lyndon B. Jo...

Aheavy question about the state of America’s health
An unsustainable lifestyle is more deadly for most Americans than those extra pounds they’re ashamed of.The media and even some experts continue...