Economy

Every dime of a minimum-wage hike is spent by its recipients — circulating upward in our local economies as they increase their purchases of such basics as food, kids' …

President Obama has promised to end the Bush tax cuts on income in excess of $250,000 when they expire at the end of the year, with his aides saying …

Ouren and Americans for Prosperity gathered these recruits in Boca Raton in July to instruct them on how they could become u201cempoweredu201d vessels for True the Voteu2019s poll watcher …

Last week, Mitt Romney committed himself to picking a Federal Reserve Board chairman that will try to keep workers' wages down.

The Great Depression was a real moment of truth for the capitalist West because it suggested to the open-minded that the free market ideology was seriously flawed.

Official Washington continues to see poverty with tunnel vision u2013 out of sight, out of mind.

With the US drought, food vs fuel has returned as an issue. What alternatives are scientists, entrepreneurs developing to take us beyond the old debate?

We have a great need to modernize and expand our infrastructure, diminish environmental pollution and provide work for the jobless.

As former GM workers stitch their lips in protest, we ask if a trade deal with the US is behind worker exploitation.

Their plans to cut domestic spending in order to increase military spending would cost hundreds of thousands of American jobs.