Economy

Letter from Chicago Teachers Strike President Karen Lewis describing the movements reasons and goals.

A new report from a United Nations group details how low inequality promotes economic growth u2014 and blasts away at a status quo where the most profitable firms end …

The Fed also said that it now expects to hold short-term interest rates near zero until at least mid-2015.

Gerry Epstein: The basic policies must change or recession and high unemployment will continue.

Over time, a fundamental shift in the ownership of wealth would slowly move the nation as a whole toward greater equality directly - through, for instance, worker-owned enterprises; and …

It was the weak labor market that dominated the US Census Bureau data and continued to wreak havoc on American families last year.

We do need to get our fiscal house in order, but after reading about The Bain Way and Mr. Romney's love of his business acumen, I disagree, more than …

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan disqualified themselves for leadership with the whoppers they peddled at the GOP convention.

Photos and commentary from the latest protest against the Trans Pacific Partnership in Lansdowne, Virginia.

Updates on Spain's government vs radical unions' responses to crisis, who gains most from expanding money supply, temp and low-paid replace middle level jobs, US dominates global arms sales. …