Lawmakers and corporations are beginning to address how erratic, last-minute schedules unnecessarily complicate the lives of part-time workers.

Republicans got their way and car dealers were exempted from Consumer Financial Protection Bureau oversight. A new investigation finds that giant loans are going to poor people with bad credit.

When I was 16 years old, I got my first job working the grill at McDonald’s. It punctured my bubble of economic privilege.

When workers have limited social welfare benefits, they are cheap and compliant, and have no choice but to accept whatever job they are offered.

Four years after Dodd-Frank was signed into a law, much of it is yet to be implemented and the risks to the economy remain.

A new invention is helping to solve the city's water pollution problem and clean up a city landmark.

Workers at Target, Wal-Mart and McDonald’s need food stamps to survive. Should the companies be taxed accordingly?

Conservative members of the House Budget Committee showed up at a recent hearing on poverty to preach what they think they already know about people living in poverty.

As Detroit draws international criticism for shutting off water for low-income families, activists ask why people are being forced to pay while the Wall Street banks live large.

In order to better the economic circumstances of their constituency, Democrats should do something they have consistently avoided: taking a side in a class war.