Economy & Labor

Over the past four decades, women have played increasingly important roles as breadwinners in their families. At the same time, women's share of unpaid care work and housework has …

Just a year ago, there were mass protests in Brazil - on one day alone, more than a million demonstrators hit the streets - speaking out against the billions …

Major discussions of a new book on China-US codependency and how and why our economic system works and breaks down.

Vijay Prashad: Although it's not clear where the Saudis stand in relation to ISIS, the group itself is a product of the Iraq War, and Western diplomats were in …

In Washington, DC, a bipartisan effort is underway to chip away at the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law, which is supposed to prevent the type of economic meltdown that …

Capitalism is not rebalancing; the yearnings and desires of large portions of society are not being responded to.

If there's one piece of data that people across the country have been talking (and arguing) about lately, it's the minimum wage.

Robert Johnson says, "I used to tell my dad, if I'm fortunate enough to see St. Peter and get through the gate, I'm not going to get in because …

Target Corporation changes course to implement workers' rights policy in contracted cleaning at stores after four years of CTUL organizing

Joseph E. Stiglitz says that such lucrative loopholes are contributing to America's inequality problem and persistent unemployment rate.