Economy & Labor

Updates on unpaid law clerks, Buffett's minimum tax on high incomes, and CBO report on medical care costs and federal deficits.

ABC World News has done two pretty tough reports from Brian Ross on the horrible fire at the Tazreen garment factory in Bangladesh that killed 114 workers. On November …

Walmart drops thousands of part-time employees from its health insurance plan in the week after widespread protests against the retail giant, and more.

What does the drama in Washington over the u201cfiscal cliffu201d have to do with strikes and work stoppages among Americau2019s lowest-paid workers at Walmart, McDonaldu2019s, Burger King, and Dominou2019s …

The fiscal cliff is a scam - so says Professor James K. Galbraith.

Fast food workers close down McDonalds and other fast food outlets demanding a living wage and the right to unionize.

As the so-called fiscal cliff nears, Republicans will likely hold things like extended unemployment benefits hostage.

Jeannette Wicks-Lim: The possibility of educating one's way out of poverty is getting dim as most new jobs only require a high school education.

In this chapter, Gar Alperovitz charts the varied interconnections between community economic and environmental stability, gender-friendly community design and land ownership institutions.

Progressive Democrats lobby against a Grand Bargain that will further unravel the social safety net.