Economy

On July 24, 2009, America's minimum wage went up from $6.55 an hour to $7.25 an hour. It hasn't changed since.

At the current rate of $7.25 an hour, a full-time, year-round worker would have gross pay of less than $15,000 a year.

Can young people re-imagine the burden of debt as a a productive tool, rather than a means to profit?

Luigi Zingales, who teaches at the University of Chicagou2019s business school, had an op-ed in Bloomberg provocatively titled u201cDo Business Schools Incubate Criminals?u201d He argues that business schools are …

At a time when most governments seem incapable of doing anything about unemployment, worsening economic inequality, and continuing financial instability, Argentina has adopted a set of striking new reforms …

In a significant expansion of the war on drugs, the United States has begun training an elite unit of counternarcotics police in Ghana and planning similar units in Nigeria …

The Olympic Games have grown into a multibillion dollar industry. But with that growth comes concerns about the negative effects of the event on the people and places where …

Updates on Chinese economy's response to global crisis, $6.6 billion legal deal among banks, credit card companies and retailers, and food stamp cuts threatened.

Evidence showing that cap and trade can bolster a new revenue stream has some state and federal officials quietly seeking answers.

There are two very powerful, and fully internalized ideologies in todayu2019s America: one is nationalism and the other is capitalism.