Economy & Labor

The Congressional Progressive Caucus's budget would increase spending on education, healthcare and the green economy while rolling back cuts against social services.

Economic equality advocates Rachel LaForest and Madeline Janis discuss with Bill how social action can change both policy and lives.

Leo Panitch on the death of Tony Benn: He conceived the need to democratize the state as the precondition for democratizing the economy.

Richard Wolff gives an updates on the GM recall scandal; corporations' push for secret courts; marijuana economics; Radio Shack closings; US workers leaving the labor force; and more.

Women are three-quarters of workers in the largest, lowest-wage occupations.

Nuclear power engineer Arnie Gunderson and journalist Chiho Kaneko discuss a lawsuit to hold General Electric and other reactor manufacturing companies responsible and the Japanese public's attitude toward nuclear …

My name is Labor and I married Mr. Management in the second half of the nineteenth century.

The International Labour Organization released the following video to demonstrate how individuals can get trapped into forced labor.

A university professor has suggested that high-cost, predatory consumer loans should be given a “pass” because the employees are “friendly” and because consumer advocates are “out of touch.”

Robert Pollin proposes a post-austerity policy agenda that lays out a clear path to job creation and lowering public debt - while advancing greater equality.