Labor

On July 24, 2009, America's minimum wage went up from $6.55 an hour to $7.25 an hour. It hasn't changed since.

Charges of vote-buying and exceeding campaign spending limits notwithstanding, there are positive signs for Mexicou2019s nascent democracy.

In their battle to unionize 12,000 Station Casinos workers, UNITE HERE's Culinary Union Local 226 has found an unusual target: the United States Marine Corps. Local 226 is targeting …

One of the great works in the establishment of civil and human rights is being shredded before our eyes.

The Olympic Games have grown into a multibillion dollar industry. But with that growth comes concerns about the negative effects of the event on the people and places where …

Updates on Chinese economy's response to global crisis, $6.6 billion legal deal among banks, credit card companies and retailers, and food stamp cuts threatened.

Because fundamentalists are ideologically driven, they tend to reject basic facts that do not comport with their ideology.

Six months prior to the Cuban Missile Crisis, however, a parallel drama had played out on the other side of the world as the U.S. secretly brought near-identical missiles …

That working people are chronically underrepresented in the media - even in times of economic downturn - is a sad reality readily apparent to anyone who has surveyed the …

Paul Krugman: Weu2019re talking about two economies that suffered severe, Depression-level slumps, and have since made up some but not all of the lost ground. You could, by the …