Economy & Labor

Virtually all money today is created as bank debt, but people can no longer take on more debt.

Filings describe an unreported lobbying campaign to protect its iconic painkiller.

President Obama took the historic step Friday of naming an openly gay man to head the Army. If confirmed, it would be a nation first.

By ignoring history, the Sustainable Development Goals' creators have shown their inability to envision an alternative economic paradigm.

Many praise a basic income guarantee as a radical solution to poverty. But global inequalities must be taken into account.

The US Census Bureau announced last week that the poverty rate in 2014 remained virtually unchanged from 2013.

According to two new reports, collective bargaining is the best tool we have to increase opportunity for workers.

The Chicago Park Service is sponsoring a national monument on the site of an autocratic old company town.

The inhabitants of the mining region have the highest per capita income in the country. But 4,000 local families continue to live in slums.

The outcome of the snap election in Greece is a foregone conclusion. The new government will implement a neoliberal program.