One way Obama can address the issue of income inequality is by giving low-wage federal workers the right to organize and bargain for fair working conditions.

Labor Day is not the time to dismiss the ability of organized workers to fight economic inequality.

USC's Edward Kleinbard says we deserve a smarter conversation about the role of government in our society.

With campaign spending over seven times what it was at this point in 2012, these mid-term elections are shaping up to be the darkest in a long time.

"Our role now is to be like a social defibrillator, to shock the heart of the nation, to cause it to revive and to remember what the real enemy is: regressive extremism."

Having poor people in the richest country in the world is a choice. We have the money to solve this. But do we have the will?

Last week, the bank agreed to a record-setting $16.65 billion settlement for selling toxic mortgage securities during the housing boom. The deal includes $30 million for legal aid, but it's not enough.

Joseph E. Stiglitz says corporate abuse of our tax system has helped make America unequal and undemocratic. But the Nobel Prize-winning economist has a plan to change that.

Burger King plans to buy Tim Hortons, a Canadian company, in order to dodge US taxes.

Watch this award-winning documentary about three teenaged boys growing up in a small town in Missouri that sheds light on rural, white poverty on PBS Video.