Economy & Labor

In addition to being less efficient, hybrids are also less eco-friendly on the highway.

Mike Elk: Boeing workers' new contract is a blow to worker pensions nationwide.

Richard D. Wolff discusses conservative inequality denials, the significance of “productivity” statistics, and more.

Nearly 1,000 same-sex couples have tied the knot in Utah since a federal judge struck down the state's ban on gay marriage late last month.

Democracy Now! speaks to Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch and author of the new report, “NAFTA at 20.”

David Bacon: Obama's push for the Trans-Pacific Partnership demonstrates his 2008 campaign pledge to oppose NAFTA-style free trade agreements was just lip service.

Bill de Blasio began his term as New York City mayor on Wednesday with a bold pledge to tackle income inequality in the nation's largest city.

Richard D. Wolff gives an economic update on Wisconsin's public employees, the GRAT tax evasion, the last 50 years of the ‘War on Poverty,’ and more.

Now, just a quarter of unemployed Americans will receive jobless benefits - the smallest proportion in half a century.

Updates on dangers in anti-bacterial soap, South African union to start socialist party, Germans retire abroad, billionaires' whims shape health care. Major discussions of Obamacare and alternatives to capitalist …