Economy

This episode covers updates on GM recalls, Cuba's investment in medical training, Germany's end-all tuition requirements, and more.

Bob Herbert tells the stories of the brave, hard-working men and women he met who have been battered by the economic downturn.

“A lot of our economic growth has simply been wasted, doing nothing but accelerating the pace of the upper-income rat race.”

Inequality in the US has reached outlandish proportions.

The possibilities for a new kind of economy.

Conservatives have fallen in love with an imaginary Canada, whose history and current reality is nothing like the real place.

In today's On the News segment: Global inequality just keeps getting worse, and more.

When I was younger I didn't think that being undocumented could affect me later on in life.

Farmers' groups and peasant movements in developing countries, and think tanks and activist groups globally, are uniting behind a new resurgence against the World Bank.

While we are still far from anything resembling full employment, it is getting easier for people to find jobs.