Economy & Labor

The FCC formally proposes new rules that could allow companies like Netflix to pay internet service providers like Comcast to have their content sent to customers at faster speeds, …

Just days after President Obama praised Walmart's business practices in a speech at one of its California stores, more than 1,800 warehouse workers in the state have settled a …

As the Colombia Free Trade Agreement reached its two-year anniversary today, labor and human rights organizations say the pactu2019s failure to curtail labor rights abuses in Colombia illustrates the …

On 13th of May 2014 Turkey faced with the biggest coal mine explosion in the countryu2019s history. It is reported that there are more than a thousand mine workers …

In today's On the News segment: Austerity measures are a death sentence for those they impact; Low wage workers will stage the largest strike in fast food history; billionaires' …

Bob Pollin and Anthony Davies debate whether a higher minimum wage means less jobs for young people entering the employment market.

Leo Panitch analyzes the complex relationship between the process of global economic integration and nation state rivalry.

Hudson and Asregadoo discuss the ways "tech capitalism" is turning San Francisco into a playground for the very rich as those who are not get pushed out to the …

There are several factors that have played into a continuing wealth disparity. For starters, non-home wealth has played a vital role in determining affluence.

Updates on no growth in the US; China overtakes the US; the costs of the GM bailout; defeat of the bill to raise minimum wage while Hawaii raises its …