Increasing Wages is an Effective Poverty Reduction Tool, Study Shows
The minimum wage is currently more than 25% below its real value in the late 1960s. The Congressional Budget Office...
The minimum wage is currently more than 25% below its real value in the late 1960s. The Congressional Budget Office...
A Republican state legislator in Kansas is being targeted by a new Koch-funded effort to oust those who want to...
The go-to intellectual guardians of our corporate order — those conservative analysts whose op-eds appear regularly in the Wall Street...
Men between 25 and 44 have seen precipitous increases in the share working at such low wages, with the share...
The billionaire Koch brothers and their political network are planning to spend almost $300 million during the 2014 election cycle,...
In the second part of his interview with Bill Moyer, the Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz says that such...
A Republican official in Arizona on Wednesday confirmed something that’s long been suspected. State schools superintendent John Huppenthal has been...
Renewable energy took a major hit in Ohio last week. Republican Gov. John Kasich signed into law Senate Bill 310,...
Rather than confront poverty by extending jobless benefits to the long-term unemployed, endorsing a higher minimum wage, or supporting jobs...
Arkansas is witnessing what may be the most expensive political ad campaign in state history: $1.5 million worth of glowing...
Having already moved to gut USDA programs promoting agricultural conservation and renewable energy and strip the USDA of its authority...
A new report on California’s grocery industry confirms what supermarket employees and labor union officials have known for years: Namely,...
Inequality and democracy are the kind of topics you may expect to hear about at a political convention, but not...
On Wednesday, June 11, Senate Republicans sided with 22,000 millionaires over 40 million Americans with student debt by blocking the...
The old adage about sticks and stones may finally apply more soundly to the rich than the poor. According to...
Paul Krugman has another column in the New York Times explaining that slashing carbon pollution has a small economic impact...
Starting last year, The Huffington Post asked people surviving on wages near the federal minimum, as well as those struggling...
Low-income families weren’t the only ones hurt by cuts to food stamps last fall. Top Walmart executives also took a...
When it comes to healthcare, Southwest Virginia is a desperate place. Many of the state’s poorest and sickest live in...
President Barack Obama on Monday will throw his support behind a new proposal to dramatically revamp the federal student loan...
Today General Motors announced that it has fired 15 employees and disciplined five others in the wake of an internal...
All across the country, public services are increasingly outsourced to private contractors in the name of efficiency and cost savings....
After the Seattle city council unanimously passed an ordinance raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next...
The CEO and other top executives at Coca-Cola have been giving themselves lavish bonus packages. According to the calculations of...
Walmart has been widely criticized for shifting the costs of its low-wage model onto taxpayers. This report, co-published by IPS...
Senator Elizabeth Warren is not shy about being a crusader for the middle class. The senior Massachusetts lawmaker had some...
Four members of the Walton family, heirs to the Walmart fortune, have a combined wealth of close to $140 billion....
Over 77,000 separate foreign banks and financial firms will start sharing information on their American accountholders with the Internal Revenue...
Memorial Day is in the rear-view mirror, but here’s one more thing to remember: American chief executives make too darn...
Sarah Anderson, director of the Global Economy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, recently asked in a speech at...
WASHINGTON — Early Friday morning, House Republicans voted down a measure that would have discouraged the government from giving contracts...
A new report by Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz for the Roosevelt Institute suggests that paying our fair share...
The “charitable” wing of David Koch’s Americans for Prosperity has dropped nearly $900,000 on ads to boost Wisconsin Governor Scott...
On May 22, The Campaign for America’s Future gave a conference on The New Populist Majority. The keynote speaker was...
While many companies doled out seven-figure raises for their top brass last year, they were far more stingy with the...
A federal judge who stopped Wisconsin’s criminal investigation of spending during the 2011 and 2012 recall elections regularly attends all-expense...
In recent years there has been a regular drum beat of news stories warning us about the enormous unfunded liabilities...
The median CEO pay package hit $10.5 million last year, according to the Associated Press, cracking eight figures for the...
Washington – The political attack ad that ran recently in Arizona had some familiar hallmarks of the genre, including a...
At the ‘New Populism Conference’ hosted by the Campaign for America’s Future on Thursday, a number of progressive thinkers and...
As fast food workers strike in 150 U.S. cities Thursday and solidarity protests spring up in 30 other countries, it’s...
In a time of slack economic growth and high unemployment around the country, Kansas lawmakers thought they had the solution:...
John Nichols speaks live from the Kansas City Public Library about the toxic influence of money and the media election...
Long before anyone knew the name Thomas Piketty, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston was plumbing the hidden depths of...
OAK BROOK, Ill. — Police arrested a rabbi and others who took part in a protest on the campus of...
Corporate tax-dodging deals known as inversions, in which a U.S. multinational shifts its tax domicile to a lower-tax country, would...