Economy

Economists Dean Baker from CEPR and Robert Pollin from PERI say that the US economy remains weak 5 years after the recession despite recent job growth, due to low …

After two years of almost no economic growth, the IMF is now projecting a steep recession for this year, with the economy shrinking by 5 percent.

The association between worker quality and unemployment should be much stronger in a good economy than in a bad economy.

Updates on: Walmart's Mexican bribes; car loans turning bad; state taxes; and more.

Despite some predictable griping from the Right, Thomas Piketty's “Capital in the 21st Century” has reinforced the case that Western societies u2013 and especially America u2013 are concentrating wealth …

As the United States slips from its status as the globe's number one economic power, small numbers of Americans continue to amass staggering amounts of wealth, while simultaneously inequality …

An issue that many have had the misfortune to encounter, but has yet to be recognized as a broader societal issue is how the medical-industrial complex takes advantage of …

We pored through a debt-resistance manual created by former Occupiers to bring you these practical tips.

Conyers said this week, “My most important bill is the Full Employment Act.”

This is basically a technical problem, and in a better world we would simply deal with that problem while enjoying the benefits of a less crowded planet.