Economy

Author Costas Lapavitsas discusses how the neoliberal capture of the state has laid the ground for the financialization of capitalism.

Paying fast food workers a living wage would reflect the true cost of our food.

Union members typically make more per week than non-union workers u2013 but the bonus is larger for women.

The Forum has focused on income inequality, the impacts of low economic growth and climate change.

Paul Krugman: “If progress against poverty has been disappointing over the past half century, the reason is not the decline of the family, but the rise of extreme inequality.”

TPP promotion could undercut President Obama's likely focus on inequality in State of the Union Address.

Wonder why drug prices are skyrocketing? A primer on how lobbying works best to make people really rich.

Paul Krugman: "One way to describe the American economy in 2013 is to say that it was, in effect, trying to begin a strong recovery, but was held back …

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders proposes restoring money in the budget for military pensions by using war funding, and giving us a true cost of war at the same time.

NAFTA has displaced jobs and people, weakened unions and ravaged US cities and rural Mexico. But worker solidarity may be its most important product.