Economy

A trade association known for using the terms “compost,” "organic," and “biosolids” to describe sewage sludge is investing in a new public relations campaign to influence policymakers and the …

New York - Forty-six years ago, at a Senate subcommittee hearing on migratory labour, U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy listened in disgust as California's Kern County Sheriff explained the arrests …

(Photo: 401K) Will corporate spending determine the outcomes of the 2012 elections? Academic research shows that when companies spend money on politics, they earn a significant financial …

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(Image: Melville House Publishers) As a kid, I didn't know the term working-class, but I certainly knew the antagonisms that came from falling below the middle and …

Protesters march on the pedestrian walkway of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, November 17, 2011. (Photo: Todd Heisler / The New York Times) The moral principle …

(Photo: Gage Skidmore / Flickr) For most of her life, Frances Fox Piven has worked as a professor of social sciences and activist far away from public …

(Photo: Paulo Ordoveza / Flickr) Gas prices continue to rise, which is finally giving Republicans an issue. Mitt Romney is demanding the President open up more domestic …

I generally don’t bother reading Thomas Friedman. A good friend gave me a copy of The World Is Flat, and I started reading it. Somewhere in the first one …

An executive at Goldman Sachs left the firm today with a bang, penning a New York Times op-ed accusing the company of increasingly putting profits ahead of clients. Greg …