Economy & Labor

Updates in this segment include Europeans limiting CEO pay, Chileans demonstrating for free education and the many countries with higher tax rates for the rich than in US.

In today's On the News segment: Today is the last day for public comment to the State Department on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, and more.

Immigration attorney Isabel Garcia: New legislation will increase deportations, beef up police while worker status will help provide cheap labor for businesses but make citizenship almost impossible to attain.

Workers' rights have eroded over the past 30 years, while the rights of corporations have increased.

New study refutes Reinhart and Rogoff analysis that underpins austerity policy around the world; shows no relation between debt and lack of growth.

The 11-member Task Force on Detainee Treatment was convened by The Constitution Project after President Obama chose not to support a national commission to investigate the counterterrorism programs.

A new study proves that economists Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff have been misleading the American people as far as austerity cuts.

Peter Lee: The US will not accept a rapprochement with North Korea with nuclear weapons, not because they are a real threat, but it would cause South Korea and …

Writer Sherman Alexie describes living in two different cultures at the same time.

Joseph Minarik (former chief economist of the Office of Management and Budget for eight years during the Clinton Administration) and economist Richard Wolff take on President Obama's proposed changes …