Economy

President Obama announced an executive order to help five million Americans pay off their student loans, and more.

The private equity industry kingpin, KKR, systematically took advantage of its credulous investors.

The far right is taking advantage of growing resentment across Europe towards the “New Rome,” and citizens' lost faith in mainstream parties' ability or willingness to secure a better …

After winning the inequality championship for so long, Latin America could become a trendsetter when it comes to equality. Other changes will show whether it is just a passing …

While it is good to see the media paying attention to this job loss in the coal industry and its implications for families and communities, this concern is a …

The commanding institutions of society are now in the hands of powerful corporate interests whose strangulating control over politics renders democracy corrupt and dysfunctional, says Henry A. Giroux.

Piketty's work demolishes the fairy-tales our top politicians tell about our economic system.

Walmart executives get big bonuses as employees and taxpayers suffer.

The index of hours worked past its pre-recession peak for the first time in May.

The recent FCC proposal to end net neutrality illustrates the trend toward corporate communism, but a social communism is what needs to be rehabilitated.