New Report: We’re Subsidizing the Forbes 400
In its latest listing of America’s wealthiest individuals, Forbes magazine for the first time ranks the members of the top...
In its latest listing of America’s wealthiest individuals, Forbes magazine for the first time ranks the members of the top...
On Monday, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon struck down a rule change issued by the Department of Labor that would...
The federal agency in charge of adjudicating labor disputes has released not one but several major decisions benefiting labor unions...
Minimum wage increases will prompt Walmart Stores Inc to adjust base salaries at 1,434 stores, impacting about a third of...
Does trumpeting scoundrels’ misdeeds set them straight? Edward Lampert, chairman and CEO of Sears Holdings, received positive reviews from only...
Holiday bells are silent in the homes of America’s struggling working poor, even with gasoline prices at their lowest levels...
Fast-food chain McDonald’s illegally retaliated against workers who participated in union organizing activities, the general counsel for the National Labor...
Promising to put forth and lobby on behalf of two bold progressive policy ideas in the months ahead, Sen. Bernie...
For the Koch brothers’ donor network, the 2012 elections were a keen disappointment. Not only did they lose what Charles...
Just weeks after Wisconsin’s controversial Governor Scott Walker was elected to a second term, a group with ties to the...
In late November, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a Retail Workers’ Bill of Rights — the first law...
BECKLEY, W.Va. — The stately, wood-paneled chamber in the federal building here unsettled Gary Fox and his wife, Mary. Fox...
If anyone in America was unsure what unmitigated greed entails, or to what extent the Koch brothers and Wall Street...
The House’s narrow passage of a massive spending bill that included a provision gutting a key financial regulatory reform is...
(Reuters) – An administrative law judge found Walmart threatened employees trying to organize workers at two stores in California, in...
On the Senate floor today, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) unveiled a twelve point economic plan that if enacted would break...
We don’t know who exactly filed the tax returns with America’s 400 largest incomes in 2010. The IRS won’t reveal...
Congress routinely allows huge packages of nominally temporary tax incentives, loopholes, deductions, and credits to expire, only to revive them...
The Republican Party today could be rechristened the Party of the Second Gilded Age. Hostility to abortion and affirmative action,...
As the Internal Revenue Service contemplates new rules to illuminate “dark money” in politics, a little-known nonprofit group is fighting...
You remember Fillmore. He’s the resident hippie of Radiator Springs in the Pixar blockbuster Cars. Much to the chagrin of...
Fast food workers in at least 150 cities nationwide will walk off the job on Dec. 4, demanding an industry-wide...
Some people say inequality doesn’t matter. They are wrong. All we have to do to see its effects is to...