Labor

Public support for a minimum wage hike is overwhelming, but lobbying by powerful corporations is tripping it up in Congress.

Thom Hartmann spoke with Truthout about his latest book, “The Crash of 2016,” a discussion that included Hartmann's wide-ranging counterpoints to a corporate media of conventional wisdom.

The income gap in America has widened exponentially since Reagan took office and implemented the so-called “Reagan Tax Cuts.”

This week, Bill speaks with Saru Jayaraman, co-founder of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, about the group's fight for better wages and working conditions for America's 10 million restaurant …

The British government is reversing damage done to local economies by the Great Recession by protecting local pubs.

Lawsuits show that the fight against wage theft is heating up, but workers shouldn't have to sue their employers to get paid what they're owed.

Most young farm-workers in California are migrants from Mexico. Photographer David Bacon gives a view of their daily lives.

Mark Weisbrot: New exchange rate is intended to safeguard the importation of essential and primary goods.

Give me your wired, your mobile, your monitored masses.

Leaked documents obtained by a Nashville TV station reveal communications between the employees of two Tennessee Republicans and a network of antiunion professionals during the United Auto Workers' …