Economy & Labor

In today's On the News segment: Los Angeles is considering taxing millionaires to help homeless people; global unemployment is expected to overtake 200 million people for the first time …

Brazil's new right-wing government plans to balance the budget by imposing austerity measures on the nation's poor people.

The DoD is taking active measures to disguise how it is spending the hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars it receives every year.

TPP appears to be a promise to countries in the Asian region to move production to boost their economies.

CEOs play a central role in making the transition away from corporate short-termism toward long-term value.

The next rate hike could come as soon as June. This should have the country very worried.

Chomsky spoke at the New York Public Library last month about why the financial financial sector is basically tax-funded.

Voters passed a precedent-setting ballot initiative that will prevent industrial bottling operations in their community.

Paying the government's debts by just issuing the money is as American as apple pie — if you go back far enough.

Coal's share of the US energy market is rapidly plunging.