Economy & Labor

What if the goal of our economy wasn't more, but better?

Activist points to increasing privatization of detention centers as being behind mandatory detention rules in immigration reform bill.

Last Friday JPMorgan Chase reached a tentative $13 billion settlement with federal prosecutors for its alleged manipulation of mortgage securities, which helped trigger the Great Recession.

A new Public Citizen report shows the vast majority of the U.S. Chamber's annual expenditures comes from undisclosed sources.

On Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay, author Max Blumenthal discusses his new book and traces the rise of Avigdor Lieberman and current policies of ethnic cleansing in Israel.

Analysis of Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas, and Wisconsin gives other states roadmaps to avoid

Richard D. Wolff gives updates on big banks' misdeeds, inadequate health care, the social costs of low wages and Nobel prizes in economics.

Enno Schmidt of Switzerland's Basic Income Initiative collected 100,000 signatures to provide every adult citizen with $2,800 per month.

All such shortsighted ideologies have proven unrealistic, and so have failed. Unfortunately, they have wreaked havoc in the meantime.

The New Economy Coalition hosted events focused on building sustainable solutions to inequality and climate change.