Economy

Poverty rates have not gone down and hunger in our country may be at its highest levels since the Great Depression.

Rania Khalek: Government shutdown means halting social services while maintaining NSA spying, deportations and continuing drone strikes in Afghanistan.

As negotiations remain stalled, Imara Jones of Colorlines.com looks at who is being hardest hit by the shutdown.

Real anarchists aren't just for abolition of the state. They're for a society in which ordinary people can freely and democratically govern themselves.

Years after fracking technology prompted an oil and gas rush, researchers are finding radioactive and other pollutants near facilities, adding to mounting evidence of environmental damage, but the federal …

The GOP's federal shutdown is on the verge of becoming the most fiscally irresponsible gesture in modern political history.

Richard D. Wolff gives an economic update on meaning of government shutdown and possible default; new French law gives workers say on selling companies; biggest billionaire US land-owners; grocery …

The trade agreement President Obama will be urging this week be passed on a fast track that will not give Congress time to read and study it, the Trans …

For the first time in 17 years, our government is officially shut down.

Paul Krugman: “It was, I suppose, predictable that Europe's austerians would claim vindication at the first hint of an economic upturn.”