Economy & Labor

283 House members oppose giving away Congressional role in approving Trans-Pacific Partnership over buy American threats, market access concerns and fast track opposition.

PERI Co-Director Gerald Epstein discusses how Fed Vice Chair Stanley Fischer has ignored real solutions to improve the economy, like increasing wages.

Updates on the drop in most Americans' household wealth and how Social Security finances are more about wages than aging.

A farmer decides to use an abandoned prison to grow pot, and more.

Walgreens has caved to public pressure and announced that they will not move overseas to avoid paying US taxes, and more.

A new film called Wisconsin Rising is screening around the country, the subject, of course, being the activism surrounding the mass occupation of the Wisconsin Capitol in 2011.

Updates on the Pentagon's overpayments; mortgages tilting toward the rich; the subprime car loan bubble; and silence about intangible property tax.

Professor Joseph McCartin and former PATCO spokesperson Elliot Simons discuss the anniversary of the firing of 11,000 air traffic controllers and why it matters today.

Americans are drowning in debt, and more.

Over 100 economists, including Nobel laureate Robert Solow, Branko Milanovic and Dani Rodrik called on Congress today to take action to mitigate the harmful fallout from the recent ruling …