Unemployment

There has been no acceleration in wage growth even as the unemployment rate has fallen.

I could ask how, exactly, Mr. Boehner believes that increased willingness to work would conjure more jobs into existence.

Involuntary part-time employment been trending downward throughout the recovery, despite the roll-out of the Affordable Care Act.

It is vital to understand that high unemployment and low wage growth are solvable problems. But powerful and well placed people believe it is in their interest to keep …

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.

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.

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

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

In a society driven by an ideology of selfishness and short-sightedness, many at the top find it easy to rationalize business and social policies that increase the ranks of …

What do we teach our youth when we make no effective effort to see that homeless youth are housed?