Economy & Labor

We should be thinking outside of the box of capitalism — in particular, supporting the emerging solidarity economy.

Funded by the restaurant industry, a conservative foundation and unnamed others, the group has taken out full-page ads warning the public that increasing the minimum wage would worsen unemployment …

Mark Weisbrot: New exchange rate is intended to safeguard the importation of essential and primary goods.

Updates on Supreme Court McCutcheon decision on campaign financing, global meaning of French municipal elections, special impacts on women of raising minimum wages, and more.

In today's On the News segment: Three decades of Reaganomics has left half of our entire nation in poverty; rather than waiting on Congress, last week, the Connecticut General …

Since the peak of the Great Society, on the first official Earth Day, captains of industry have engaged in a conspiracy to destroy the gains made for working people …

As the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence feuds with the CIA over the declassification of its 6,000-page report on the agency's secret detention and interrogation programs, we host a …

As President Obama prepares for his long-delayed April trip to Asia, corporate lobbyists and other supporters of the massive 12 nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal have released deceiving …

Major discussions on income distribution vs. redistribution; Maryland cutting taxes on rich and leaving tipped workers' minimum wages at $3.63 an hour; and a final segment on criticisms of …

All around the world, people are talking about a basic minimum income, and what they're saying makes a lot of economic sense. To ensure everyone has a sense of …