Economy

Since the peak of the Great Society, on the first official Earth Day, captains of industry have engaged in a conspiracy to destroy the gains made for working people …

Dean Baker: There is nothing natural about the government giving tax exempt status to big money non-profits.

The economics of immiseration would be impossible without the politics of seduction.

In America today, three visions rooted in different views about human nature and society offer distinct slants on budget priorities: the conservative, the liberal and the progressive.

Thursday the AFL-CIO released a new report, NAFTA at 20. The report makes the point that, "On the whole, NAFTA-style agreements have proved to be primarily a vehicle to …

The taxes paid by corporations today are near record lows as a percentage of the United States' total tax bill, even as they are recording massive profits.

The ever-changing reasons for a never-changing policy suggest that we aren't really talking about policy analysis.

After more than a decade of repeated citations for deplorable conditions at New York City homeless shelters, more than 400 children and their families are being moved from the …

Portland's awkward silence on $15 was finally broken when Portland activist-professor Nicholas Caleb recently announced his candidacy for city council, his top platform plank being the $15 minimum wage..

France not only does much more redistribution, but has expanded its redistribution over time, limiting the rise in overall inequality, while the US has not.