Economy & Labor

The battle by the GOP and its wealthy donors to keep middle and working class individuals poorly paid and without workplace rights continues.

Economist Paul Krugman explains how the United States is becoming an oligarchy - the very system our founders revolted against.

From slavery to Jim Crow to cities today, African-Americans have been leading the cooperative movement.

The tiny house movement sweeping the country might be the solution to some housing and social problems caused by the recession.

Updates on how inequality persists across generations; the nonsense of “taxes are job killers”; governor uses tax revenues to prevent unionization in a private enterprise; and more.

Last year, median CEO pay jumped to $10.5 million dollars - an increase of about 13 percent. However, most workers didn't see their paychecks go up by a single …

USM Assistant Professor Meghan Brodie and USM student Meaghan LaSala discuss how this victory marks the beginning of a push to look to other efficient ways to fill the …

In their acceptance speeches, Poitras and Greenwald paid tribute to their source.

Mark Dimondstein president of the American Postal Workers Union spoke in Chicago at the Labor Notes convention on how to defend the People's Post Office.

The Real News goes to the picket lines as Johns Hopkins Hospital workers launch a three-day strike for living wages.