Economy

From the 1970s until recently, Congress allowed and encouraged a great deal of financial market deregulation – allowing big banks to become larger, to expand their scope, and to …

White House press secretary Jay Carney refers to a graph referencing private-sector job growth during the White House Daily Briefing on Monday, February 6, 2012, in Washington, DC. (Photo: …

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 …