The link between income inequality and economic instability has drawn renewed attention from economists, policy makers, global financial institutions, media,...
In an op-ed published by the Christian Post, Phyllis Schlafly — the founder of the Eagle Forum — maintained that...
One of the most hotly contested issues in the debate over raising the federal minimum wage — whether it will...
Although they say they’re concerned about inequality, economic policymakers continue to pummel low-income families and the jobless, and that’s bad...
Almost half a million college graduates are working minimum-wage jobs, according to new government statistics.
A new poll finds that 89 percent of fast food workers nationwide say they experience wage theft.
On Wednesday, Senate Republicans unanimously voted against advancing the Paycheck Fairness Act. Forty-three voted against invoking cloture, joined by Independent...
After rejecting two previous proposals for being too generous to banks, on Friday a federal judge approved Detroit’s plan to...
Most people know about income inequality: the gap in earnings between the 1 percent and the rest of us that...
Drivers and pizza cooks will share a $448,000 payout from 23 Domino’s Pizza franchise owners around New York state under...
Shake Shack, a burger chain with locations in Florida, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C. as well as international...
Rashida Tlaib is a state representative in Michigan. But on Wednesday when she checked out at her grocery store, she...
Workers in California, Michigan and New York this week filed six new lawsuits against McDonald’s claiming they were systematically shorted...
Right-wing groups may have successfully defeated a unionization bid at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga, Tenn. manufacturing plant, but it wasn’t a clean...
Former Chief Executive Officer Ron Johnson, 54, of J.C. Penney Co. got a compensation package worth 1,795 times the average...
So-called fast food “managers” who do much of the same work as non-managerial workers, but without being eligible for overtime...
"Ronald Reagan's theory was really 'trickle down' economics...and renamed 'supply side.' Cut tax rates for the wealthy; everyone else will benefit. As Reagan's budget director David Stockman confided at the time, the supply-side rhetoric 'was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.'" —The Gipper's Economy. To see how the Trickle Down Con was sold to the public click here.
