Economy & Labor

The renowned playwright and actor Wallace “Wally” Shawn has just returned from Brazil, where he gave a special performance of his play, “The Designated Mourner,” to journalist Glenn Greenwald.

In this episode we put on our rubber gloves and dive into it.

A North Carolina company was sold to its 320 workers; India enables cheap substitutes for overpriced drugs; updates on US union membership in 2013; the myth of returning manufacturing …

Art Wilmarth thinks it's important to understand exactly what went wrong at what was, relatively recently, Americau2019s largest bank.

Kevin O'Leary's recent remarks inspire this open letter to the 85 richest people in the world.

Gar Alperovitz tells Paul Jay that if you concentrate wealth at the top, there's not enough purchasing power to make the rest of the system work.

The Forum has focused on income inequality, the impacts of low economic growth and climate change.

As farmworkers continue to fight for fair wages and safe working conditions across the United States, Goodman looks at the life of legendary organizer Cesar Chavez

Updates on Memphis workers locked out; problems of on-line education; capitalism, wealth inequality, and Starbucks; and Gallup on Americans' dissatisfied with their economy, and more.

85 people control the same amount of wealth as half the population of the entire world, and the top one percent has 65 times the wealth of the bottom …