Economy

Updates in this segment include Europeans limiting CEO pay, Chileans demonstrating for free education and the many countries with higher tax rates for the rich than in US.

In today's On the News segment: Today is the last day for public comment to the State Department on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, and more.

Some Western countries have been trying to curb or even eventually eliminate the Asian model of state-owned or state-aided capitalism.

Most minimum-wage workers are adults, the majority of them are women, and many are parents who are trying to raise their children on poverty wages.

Nearly 300,00 people have signed the Move To Amend petition that states: We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling …

New study refutes Reinhart and Rogoff analysis that underpins austerity policy around the world; shows no relation between debt and lack of growth.

Debates in countries over laws to curb tax evasion miss the point, according to Richard D. Wolff.

Robert Reich: Both sides of the modern debate have neglected the scourge of widening inequality.

Like many US cities since the onset of the recession, Portland has faced years of budget cuts costing jobs.

Dean Baker: The high pay for those at the top does not come out of the air; it comes from everyone else's paycheck.