Author: Ethan Michael
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Washington Plays Chicken With Working Paychecks While Airports Burn
More than a thousand Transportation Security Administration officers handed in their badges this winter because the government stopped sending them paychecks. For seventy-five days,…
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Overdose Numbers Are Dropping But The Streets Are Getting More Dangerous
About seventy thousand people died from drug overdoses last year, marking a fourteen percent drop and the third straight annual decline. That sounds like…
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Crime Numbers Shift While Working Families Pay The Real Price
Thirty-three percent. That was the jump in homicides across major American cities during a single year when the pandemic shut down everything but fear.…
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Working Families Pay The Real Price For Corporate Fraud Schemes
Seventy percent of Americans encountered a scam last year, yet the most devastating financial heists still happen behind polished glass office doors. Capital One…
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Six Workers Died While We Let Sixty Eight Bridges Sit Unchecked
At three twenty in the morning last March, six construction men went to work fixing a pothole and never came home. A container ship…
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More Than A Thousand Security Officers Quit While Washington Plays Games
Over a thousand airport security screeners walked off the job this winter after missing their second paycheck. Travelers faced endless lines at checkpoints while…
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Working Families Pay The Price While Leaders Argue Over Blame
Chicago logged 18 homicides in a single day, a city record that tells a story about neighborhoods pushed past the breaking point. That number…
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Working Families Bear the Burden of Rising Crime and Housing Shortages
Eighteen people died on a single day in Chicago last year. That was not a statistical anomaly. It marked the highest daily toll in…
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When The Grid Fails Overseas And At Home Working Families Foot The Bill
Ten million people woke to dark homes and silent refrigerators in Havana last Saturday. That marked the third time this month Cuba lost all…
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Sixty Eight American Bridges Face Ship Strike Risks One Year After Tragedy
A single faulty wire on a cargo ship triggered a power failure that killed six construction workers and dropped the Francis Scott Key Bridge…