Economy

Joblessness is down because new jobs are being created, but lots of new jobs don't pay enough to support a small family.

Robert Pollin: Five years after the Great Recession, austerity as the dominant policy agenda is keeping the recovery weak.

The goal of the union cooperative is 100 percent worker-ownership, with each worker purchasing and owning an equal share.

Giving corporations a repatriation tax holiday on the profits they have parked overseas to avoid US taxes would only encourage corporations to keep sheltering their profits overseas, as well …

A severe water crisis in financially bankrupt Detroit has prompted several NGOs to appeal for UN intervention.

The excesses of capitalism are not simply a question of bad management and a political unwillingness to properly regulate it by imposing the right sort of checks and balances, …

Updates on health economics; Mississippi political lessons; and what's wrong with a Harvard economist.

Activists in Detroit have appealed to the United Nations over the cityu2019s move to shut off the water of thousands of residents.

World Cup and related economic protests occurring across the country are bringing in big profits for Rio-based company Condor Nonlethal Technologies.

In this excerpt from"Brazil's Dance With the Devil," Zirin describes the history of the poor Rio communities known as favelas, targets of a real-estate land grab.