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I asked Eric to talk about Social Securityu2019s history in the context of recent politics and media coverage.

With soaring tuition, poor job prospects, and loans that take decades to pay off, thereu2019s no question that students need a year of jubilee.

Whatu2019s at stake for aging ethnic boomers and others on the economic edge?

It's simple: Raise the pay of working people, and as the workers buy more goods and services with their new earnings, the businesses that sell them will hire more …

Updates on Europe's ongoing crisis, real US tax history, bank tycoon admits

Former Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President Andy Stern has long faced criticism from dissidents within his own union that he sold out workers in order to accommodate corporate …

Corporate wellness programs, according to critics, would rather place the blame solely on the plate of individual workers.

A favorite neocon theme is that the superiority of Western culture explains the worldu2019s wealth disparities, not the accident of natural resources and the aggressive use of military force.

Dilbit is exempt from an oil tax that is used to clean up conventional crude and dilbit spills. The exemption is worth $35 million a year, and growing.

The White House already tried cutting all three main entitlement programs, last year (cuts to Medicaid are actually cuts to Obamacare, for what itu2019s worth, since an expansion of …