Economy

San Francisco upgraded its power washing of Market Street sidewalks from twice a month to 20 times per month, a rate increasingly hard on the street's homeless population.

The powerful National Restaurant Association does all it can to assure that industry wages are kept so low many workers rely on public assistance and that paid sick leave …

The drive to scrap the corporate income tax won't stop at zero.

Updates on no growth in the US; China overtakes the US; the costs of the GM bailout; defeat of the bill to raise minimum wage while Hawaii raises its …

The Campaign for Americau2019s Future has thrown its support behind the student loan relief bill introduced on Tuesday by Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

During its annual meeting of shareholders today, Kraft Foods Group, Inc. will face a resolution filed by the Green Century Equity Fund urging the company to refrain from using …

A report released Tuesday by the London School of Economics depicts drug prohibition as a massive failure, a financial drain on economies and a violation of the basic human …

Paul Krugman deconstructs the arguments of a recent op-ed by Jurgen Stark.

There is no need to sequester funds urgently needed by Main Street to pay for Wall Street's malfeasance. Californians can have their cake and eat it too with a …

Paul Krugman: Sweden's slide into deflation actually offers several lessons relevant to the rest of us.