Economy

Pushed through before Democrats gain five House seats in the new legislature next month, opponents call the effort an organized attack against labor that will suppress wages and weaken …

The Middle Class was built on the backs of organized labor. But today unions are dying.

Fiscal Cliff by Matt Bors

Frank Hammer: GOP Governor and State legislature pass law weakening union rights.

Gerald Epstein: The money thrown at corporations by states to invite investment is a boondoggle that should be ended by federal law.

The Progressive Caucus has laid down these six principles for tax reform.

There's more to Grover Norquist's anti-tax pledge than ideology or principle - it's also about Norquist's efforts keep taxes low for his donor base of billionaires.

Strike fever isn't just for Walmart workers anymore.

Both Republican and Democratic plans for the economy leave the system that produced this crisis and will produce more crises unchanged. There IS an alternative, argues economist Rick Wolff.