Austerity

Like many US cities since the onset of the recession, Portland has faced years of budget cuts costing jobs.

There are new and even historic anti-poverty proposals in this budget. But the better they are, the more they fall into the hard to get category.

We don't need gay marriage to ‘ruin’ one man, one woman, one mortgage relationships; austerity is doing that just fine, says Andrew Fogle.

The two most looked-up words in 2012 were ‘socialism’ and ‘capitalism’.

Bob Pollin: Costs of Social Security and Medicare have nothing to do with rise in fiscal deficit.

In a big derivatives bust, there may be no collateral left for the creditors who are next in line.

Ellen Frank: Conservatives' real aim in their fiscal brinkmanship is to gut Social Security and Medicare.

A major new study published in The Lancet makes clear that austerity policies adopted in the European south have produced health care crises.

Then they complain about the cuts, but still demand cuts somewhere else and add new demands that someone ELSE decide what should be cut.

As Washington lawmakers pushes new austerity measures, economist Richard Wolff calls for a radical restructuring of the US economic and financial systems.