Economy

Dave Johnson breaks down the Romney economic plan to show how many Americans stand to lose it all.

Illinois provides a new model for dismantling debtors' prisons across the country.

This is a continuation of our series of interviews looking at single-payer or government-run health insurance plan and focusing particularly on Maryland.

In today's On the News segment: The world is on the brink of a major food crisis, Democratic Congressman Jim McDermott introduced legislation last week to place a tax on …

The reelection of Governor Scott Walker merely confirmed what trade unionists should already understandu2014laboru2019s current strategies have little chance of success. In the post election soul-searching, labor analysts have …

As ProPublica has been detailing for two years, Wall Street banks and the hedge fund Magnetar worked together to build mortgage-backed deals that the hedge fund also bet against. …

There is not a single federal agency that has tracked foreclosures comprehensively, a massive information gap that prevents the work of journalists, advocates and policymakers alike.

Black male unemployment is 14.8 percent, and the current trend is up.

If Julian Assange is granted asylum in Ecuador, he will become a resident of Latin America, where the trove of classified U.S. State Department cables he strategically disseminated through …

The $21 trillion alone is the amount of the US and Japanese economies combined.