Economy

Wage growth slowed slightly in the last quarter to 1.8 percent from 2.0 percent in the last year.

A key committee of the World Bank’s governing board Wednesday spurned appeals to revise a draft policy statement that, according to nearly 100 civil-society groups, risks rolling back …

The Government Accountability Office says environmental regulators are failing to adequately enforce rules for wells used to dispose of toxic waste from drilling.

Anti-politics rejects the electoral-representative institutions of contemporary democracies. There are two opposite forms of anti-politics, one striving toward a technocracy controlled by oligarchies and corporations, and one striving toward …

Maybe we are already on the eternal train of global capitalism that is taking us for a ride.

Updates on fast food workers, GDP data, Salt Lake City dailies and bathroom breaks. Wolff interviews mental health counselor Harriet Fraad. Replies on FDR vs. Obama and on how …

What does it say about our society when one hedge fund manager makes a bigger income than the whole population of Springfield, Ohio or Burbank, California?

Although Florida law prohibits charter schools from issuing bonds, Charter Schools USA has found a way.

Poverty is structural, created by policies and practices that benefit some people at excruciating cost to others - particularly people of color and women.

Walking on the West Side exposes how the international financial institutions serve the interests of agribusiness corporations through deregulation of the food and agriculture sectors and policies favoring foreign …