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Fifty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. understood that the path to equality must begin with full employment.

Dean Baker: Contracts with Wall Street types always seem to draw more respect than contracts with workers.

The most important decisions about stuff are not those made in the supermarket or department store aisles.

Ellen Brown: Giant banks are buying up our country's infrastructure - the power and supply chains that are vital to the economy.

We are witnessing transitions from social-welfare states to social-control states around the world.

Detroit's bankruptcy shows exactly what this whole manufacturing discussion is really about.

In 2010, 18 employees working for Foxconn in China attempted suicide. These shocking events focused world attention on the manufacturing supply chains of China's export industry and the experience …

A government that sucks up ever vaster quantities of useless information on innocent people actually hurts its own ability to investigate crimes.

We all know our stuff doesn't grow on store shelves. Here's how we can rehumanize our relationship with our things - and the people who make them.

The disturbing truths about our own nation's manipulations and abuses around the world may have been uncomfortable, sobering and embarrassing. But many times it's important for Americans to see …