Economy

Fast food workers close down McDonalds and other fast food outlets demanding a living wage and the right to unionize.

As the so-called fiscal cliff nears, Republicans will likely hold things like extended unemployment benefits hostage.

Jeannette Wicks-Lim: The possibility of educating one's way out of poverty is getting dim as most new jobs only require a high school education.

Bernie Sanders: If enacted, the plan put forward by Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles will cause major economic pain to virtually every American.

Progressive Democrats lobby against a Grand Bargain that will further unravel the social safety net.

Financiers, polluters and other biz honchos team up to strangle the economy.

Robert Reich: If Geithner believes any deal with Republicans is better than no deal, and deficit reduction is more important than job creation, we could be in for a …

The Bank of England named former Goldman Sachs investment banker Mark Carney as its new chief.

A new report shows empirical evidence of how rampant filibuster abuse continues to cause an unprecedented lack of legislative productivity.

The whole bloody mess - u201cshared sacrificeu201d (Obama; heh) / austerity / u201cThrow Grandma from the Fiscal Cliffu201d - is appalling, and dispiriting.