Economy & Labor

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 …

Updates on evaluating privatization of public schools; engineers' class action against Apple, Google, Intel and Adobe; and how in the US, home ownership gives way to renting.

At the world-renowned Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, the wages of many of the workers, including 15-year veterans, qualify a family of four for food stamps.

Lynn Fries hosts an extended interview with Thomas Piketty about his widely acclaimed Capital in the 21st Century.

The FCC formally proposes new rules that could allow companies like Netflix to pay internet service providers like Comcast to have their content sent to customers at faster speeds, …

Nepali youth flock to Qatar in search of a better life but they are subjected to a life of slavery miles away from home.