Economy & Labor

Updates on Maya Angelou; Chilean students' victory; Detroit's plan to demolish 40,000 houses; and housing market realities.

Of course, our modern day version has to include a gun. Holden with a gun where instead of holing up in a hotel room with a prostitute, he holes …

The rich love to demonize the poor, but it turns out that the wealthy are the ones who need a little shaming, and more.

Costas Lapavitsas says that capitalists have learned how to make huge profits without producing anything useful.

Wireless is where Verizon makes most of its profits. But for decades, Verizon has kept a wall between union workers in its landline division and non-union workers in its …

It is often forgotten that the path to the Great American Middle Class was forged in large part by labor activists and social reformers during the first six decades …

This economy does not work for working people. This isn't an accident. It isn't an act of God.. It is a power grab.

ProPublica's columnist Jesse Eisinger describes the tendency to focus on Tim Geithner, while ignoring the role of the president.

A wide range of consumer, family farm, environmental, Internet freedom, labor and other organizations held a press event outside the Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement negotiating summit.

Shareholders of the Willbros Group, a major energy infrastructure company, rejected the board's executive pay proposal at their annual meeting today, representing a rare victory for institutional shareholders seeking …