Money & Politics
July 31, 2013See why US fast food workers are walking off the job this week in what organizers say is the largest strike in the industry’s history.
July 22, 2013 | Updated September 12, 2013In Richmond, Calif., home prices plummeted 58 percent since their peak. Now the city is trying out a new way to help homeowners refinance—and halt the slide into foreclosure.
July 10, 2013In this animated video, former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich explains why America's top one percent now take home nearly 20 percent of the country's total income.
June 11, 2013The academic and political activist will talk about the corrupting influence of money on politics and how to take our democracy back from the billionaires.
June 2, 2013Nearly 200 rallied at Sallie Mae’s shareholder meeting last week to demand a meeeting with the nation’s largest private student loan lender.
May 28, 2013The Nation's Greg Kaufmann reports on 500 activists who traveled to Washington, D.C. to “Bring Justice to Justice” in the fight for home ownership.
May 22, 2013Get need-to-know facts about social welfare nonprofits -- also known as dark money groups -- who don’t have to disclose their donors.
May 21, 2013Apple's CEO says he welcomes a review of the U.S. corporate tax system, but his company has spent a lot of money lobbying Congress to keep the status quo.
May 21, 2013Mattea Kramer and Jo Comerford look ahead to what life could be like after 10 years of sequestration and austerity.
May 15, 2013The revelation that the IRS was targeting conservative social welfare organizations for special scrutiny has generated more outrage than even the IRS is used to receiving.
