The War on the Poor and Middle-Class Families (Video)
Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median household pay is dropping, adjusted for inflation. A smaller share of working-age...
Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median household pay is dropping, adjusted for inflation. A smaller share of working-age...
In a nation that has long operated on the principle that an “American Dream” is available to anyone willing to...
WASHINGTON — Charles and David Koch are the unofficial standard-bearers of a new generation of billionaires, willing to spend immense...
At the very end of last year, Shaun Goodman left a bar in Olympia, Washington in his Ferrari and led...
His relentless coverage of Wall Street malfeasance turned him into one of the most influential journalists of his generation, but...
Holy axis of evil, Batman! A dramatic fossil fuel threefer is brewing in Chicago, as mountains of the carbon-saturated fuel...
The data on widening inequality are remarkably and disturbingly clear. The Congressional Budget Office has found that between 1979 and...
A majority of the Senate voted to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour recently, yet the bill failed...
On Thursday, the fast-food strikes that have been spreading around the country are going global. Workers at restaurants like Burger...
Mitt Romney’s 47 percent video has had two important, lasting contributions to American politics. The first is that it kept...
Fossil fuel divestment campaigns are working. They’re working so well that Big Coal is scared and striking back, frantically trying...
In honor of Mother’s Day, we thought it would be appropriate to point out a gift millions of moms would...
Organized labor has been under attack for decades, with devastating results for the middle class. Wages have not kept up...
Hundreds of children too young to buy cigarettes are working 60 hours a week on tobacco farms across the South,...
A beginning elementary school teacher in a small district in California makes around $40,000 per year. That’s 2 or 3...
Coke has recently come under fire for what it pays its top executives. The overlapping roles that board members play...
Senator Carl Levin said he is writing legislation to block U.S. companies from shifting their legal addresses overseas to lower...
Institutional Investor’s latest “rich list” in its Alpha magazine, its survey of the 25 highest-paid hedge fund managers, is out.
When a city is forced to spend more on Wall Street fees than on basic public services, it is the...
The United States offers three kinds of subsidies to tycoons with private jets: accelerated tax write-offs, avoidance of personal taxes...
The Koch brothers’ main political arm intends to spend more than $125 million this year on an aggressive ground, air...
When you think of the term “public pension fund,” you probably imagine hyper-cautious investment strategies kept in check by no-nonsense...
A new study that will appear in the fall 2014 issue of Perspectives on Politics concludes that the United States...
The salary of McDonald’s CEO Donald Thompson should be slashed by the company’s Board of Directors due to the chain’s...
Studies have shown a significant correlation between monies spent and the outcome of elections. While there are still instances where...
A good many Americans now know the high-finance games that JPMorgan Chase and other big banks like to play —...
Environmentalists are planning to take billionaires Charles and David Koch to court, alleging the brothers’ companies are responsible for polluting...
The chase after ever cheaper sites for manufacturing is causing rising inequality, low-wage misery, and unsafe workplaces in many parts...
Here’s a startling fact that illustrates how income inequality is changing the U.S.: The top 1 percent of Americans now...
Today’s super rich engorge themselves on federal dollars and evade billions in taxes while ordinary Americans work themselves to the...
In his most recent piece for the New York Times, celebrated economist Paul Krugman ponders the ways his chosen field...
The dramatic progress of the movement to make the minimum wage a living wage was highlighted on May Day when...
The Koch-backed, right-wing lobbying group, ALEC, is planning a coordinated attack on the EPA’s plan to limit carbon emissions from...
The link between income inequality and economic instability has drawn renewed attention from economists, policy makers, global financial institutions, media,...
At long last, the Koch brothers and their conservative allies in state government have found a new tax they can...
You’ve probably heard of the billionaire Koch Brothers by now, and their sinister push to distort our democracy. But you...
An oligarchy, Webster’s dictionary tells us, is “a form of government in which the ruling power belongs to a few...
Racist rancher and welfare cowboy Cliven Bundy got some help from an unexpected quarter over the weekend, as a far...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles city attorney is suing Bank of America for mortgage discrimination it claims led...
There’s another reason to get upset when CEOs make millions: Taxpayers are subsidizing some of this wealth.
RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh Chahal pleaded guilty to misdemeanor domestic violence and battery charges last week, dodging 45 felony counts for...
The American middle class, long the most affluent in the world, has lost that distinction. While the wealthiest Americans are...
WASHINGTON — The top 10 percent of earners took more than half of the country’s total income in 2012, the...
Protesters dressed up as Apple Store employees in telltale blue t-shirts marched in front of the Union Square store Tuesday...
A beginning elementary school teacher in a small district in California makes around $40,000 per year. That’s 2 or 3...
Citizens across the U.S. are attempting to break free of the fossil fuel industry and do what state and federal...