The right-wing echo chamber has vilified food stamp users with a variety of absurd lies and myths. As a result, people will go hungry.

Uncle Sam, indirectly, is the biggest low-wage employer in the country. So what's happening to the people who push mops in federal buildings and sell souvenirs at museums this week?

David Cay Johnston explains what's really happened to our tax system over the years.

The real game, if you can play it, is shifting the tax burden onto someone else.

As new state-level marketplaces open for enrollment today, here's a primer that answers 20 questions about the Affordable Care Act.

Across the country, for-profit companies are engaged in a hostile takeover of our schools, roads, prisons, drinking water -- even government itself.

Matt Taibbi talks about his new investigation into Wall St. hedge funds that are taking public pension money out of the hands of retirees.

Why it's wrong for the media to portray this unprecedented legislative extortion as typical partisan negotiations.

The annual release of the Census poverty data is the one day the mainstream media will discuss poverty. But here are five other important findings you might have missed.

A set of campaign consultants and insurance agents stand to profit from confusing Americans on the eve of the healthcare reform enrollment date.