Economy & Labor

In today's On the News segment: Fast-food workers in more than 150 cities go on strike, and more.

In today's On the News segment: California is still suffering with an extreme drought, and more.

A battle is brewing in The Hamptons, where the wealthy and the super wealthy square off against one another over traffic.

This episode covers food insecurity, oil disaster economics, politicos going to Wall Street, billionaires buying homes, education in the UK and how the US sustains elites.

David Cay Johnston says to ordinary Americans: "You elected these people, you chose these people who are destroying your families, destroying your life, who are making the lives of …

Celebrating Labor Day should mean commemorating the key role unions played in winning benefits we take for granted now; and more.

The US holiday Labor Day is a joke. Again there will be no visible strikes and no muscle-flexing by the labor movement.

May Boeve from 350.org and Bruce Hamilton of the Amalgamated Transit Union discuss how the environmental and labor movements have united to organize the People's Climate Summit in New …

As the school year begins, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is launching his signature initiative of full-day universal prekindergarten at public schools.

On Labor Day 1940, American workers faced the aftermath of the Great Depression, with mass unemployment persisting and a divided labor movement facing a renewed counterattack from corporate America.