Jobs

Gerald Epstein discusses how Fed chair Janet Yellen's recent comments on bringing unemployment down could be positive but Fed policy still remains toothless in helping out working Americans.

There is a growing push by inflation hawks to get the Federal Reserve Board to raise interest rates.

'When a nation exports its jobs to other countries, its citizens are depreciated as human beings.

Under-the-table, off-the-books work has become the norm for many.

Many in the financial industry couldn't care less about unemployment. They don't want to risk any inflation that could erode the value of their wealth.

Wage growth slowed slightly in the last quarter to 1.8 percent from 2.0 percent in the last year.

In Latin America, young people are the main link in the chain of poverty leading from one generation to the next.

Wage growth has been more rapid for production workers than their supervisors.

Joblessness is down because new jobs are being created, but lots of new jobs don't pay enough to support a small family.

There is little reason to have faith that Sheryl Sandberg-style “trickle-down” feminism will benefit the masses any more than its economic equivalent has.