Ronald Reagan stuck it to millennials: A college debt history lesson no one tells
During my first semester of college, John Lennon was assassinated 40 blocks south of my freshman dorm, and Ronald Reagan,...
During my first semester of college, John Lennon was assassinated 40 blocks south of my freshman dorm, and Ronald Reagan,...
The South has never been America’s bright spot when it comes to things like poverty and health outcomes, but recent...
On Monday the Supreme Court struck down a key part of the Affordable Care Act, ruling that privately-owned corporations don’t...
In the global discussion of human rights, impunity refers to de facto immunity from punishment enjoyed by dictators, oligarchs, and...
This is what happens when Marco Rubio, Mitch McConnell, Tom Cotton, Cory Gardner and a gang of the world’s richest...
Responding to a Bureau of Economic Analysis study that found the state’s personal-income growth during the first three months of...
Poverty continues to be a pressing social problem– but it’s hardly mentioned on the network newscasts, according to a new...
After savaging public education in Chicago, Philly, New Orleans and Bridgeport, Vallas has been summoned home to Illinois by the...
Ikea will announce Thursday a plan to raise its average minimum wage at U.S. stores to $10.76 an hour, a...
Many Americans dislike the IRS and will paint you a vivid picture of the tax man knocking down your door...
Reports that two Supreme Court Justices have attended seminars sponsored by the energy giant and conservative bank-roller Koch Industries has...
After Gap announced in February that it will eventually raise its lowest pay to $10 an hour, job applications increased...
Wal-Mart has a knack for proving its critics right. In its latest example, responding to an Op-Ed by the New...
The ugly face of empire and disaster capitalism is visible all over the world. Detroit, Michigan, was once a thriving...
Two weeks ago, the Seattle City Council made national headlines when it voted to raise that city’s minimum wage to...
The United States is facing new international pressure to raise its minimum wage. In its annual review of the U.S....
(Reuters) – As tension over inequality simmers, persistent cash hoarding by multinationals and the super-rich may be one measure of...
The Massachusetts House passed a bill that will raise the state’s minimum wage to $11 an hour by 2017. The...
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...