Economy

The pilfering of assets of low-income Americans results from the interaction of several nasty features of Obamacare.

You may comment on updated processes proposed to boost the National Labor Relations Board, which looks out for workers, says Ellen Dannin.

Dean Baker: The corporate directors who are supposed to be holding down CEO pay for the benefit of the shareholders are generally buddies of the CEOs.

Author Donald Lazere details the means by which American corporations render their own political and economic power invisible.

Austerity policies are dangerous because they don't achieve their purported goals and harm those with the least political power, political economist and author Mark Blyth tells Truthout.

The SCHR alone has repeatedly sued the state of Georgia for underfunding its public defender system to the point where defendants lack any reasonable semblance of representation.

President Obama signed an executive order on Wednesday raising the minimum wage for some federally contracted workers to $10.10.

Global trends towards a strengthening of legal rights over land for local and indigenous communities appear to have slowed significantly in recent years.

One of the odd things about the United States has long been the immense range of people who consider themselves to be middle class - and are deluding themselves.

John Weeks: A fundamental misconception of neoliberal economics is that governments need to balance their budgets like a household.