Economy & Labor

Occupy Wall Street celebrated its one year anniversary with direct action.

After months of partisan name-calling, it's heartwarming to see politicians of both parties coming together against a common enemy: teachers. The strike by the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) has …

A new report by In the Public Interest exposes ALECu2019s extensive privatization agenda including private prison corporations, online education companies and health care corporations.

Letter from Chicago Teachers Strike President Karen Lewis describing the movements reasons and goals.

A new report from a United Nations group details how low inequality promotes economic growth u2014 and blasts away at a status quo where the most profitable firms end …

Labor unions back striking teachers, while Democrats remain silent .

Gerry Epstein: The basic policies must change or recession and high unemployment will continue.

Over time, a fundamental shift in the ownership of wealth would slowly move the nation as a whole toward greater equality directly - through, for instance, worker-owned enterprises; and …

Updates on Spain's government vs radical unions' responses to crisis, who gains most from expanding money supply, temp and low-paid replace middle level jobs, US dominates global arms sales. …

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has a new labor focused strategy for reeling in the African American vote.