Economy

The finance, insurance, and real estate industries spend approximately $1,331 a minute on influencing our leaders.

The liberation movement is organized into a loosely connected network of cells that collaborate u2014 and compete u2014 to see how many houses they can free from bank control …

Updates on European crisis (creative Spanish anti-austerity politics, Mondragon avoids worst of crisis, suicides in response to crisis), Chilean students' strike against privatized education as bad education.

Romneyu2019s alleged 13 percent tax rate is lower than that of most middle class Americans who earn a tiny fraction of what he earns.

In today's Election Countdown Noam Chomsky speaks on the impact of the #Occupy Movement; California park official use disasters to create fake overtime for managers; Paul Ryan admits to …

While political pundits claim that Paul Ryan's appointment will start the real financial debates, not even Romney is completely on board with the Vice President's economics.

Bob Pollin: In the quest for a short term solution to the crisis, there is a lot to learn from Swedish social-democracy.

Authors Harrison and Landy recently returned from a trip to Greece, where they met with activists and others to gain a better understanding of the popular upsurge against the …

Homelessness was not a large problem after the 1930s, thanks to the New Deal and other housing programs, until several policy changes in the 70s and 80s began to …

If the labor movement is to have a future in the United States, it will depend on its ability to show how the issues it champions are not just …