- July 24, 2014Lawmakers and corporations are beginning to address how erratic, last-minute schedules unnecessarily complicate the lives of part-time workers.
- July 24, 2014Republicans 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.
- July 24, 2014When I was 16 years old, I got my first job working the grill at McDonald’s. It punctured my bubble of economic privilege.
- July 23, 2014When workers have limited social welfare benefits, they are cheap and compliant, and have no choice but to accept whatever job they are offered.
- July 22, 2014Four years after Dodd-Frank was signed into a law, much of it is yet to be implemented and the risks to the economy remain.
- July 22, 2014A new invention is helping to solve the city's water pollution problem and clean up a city landmark.
- July 21, 2014Workers at Target, Wal-Mart and McDonald’s need food stamps to survive. Should the companies be taxed accordingly?
- July 19, 2014Conservative 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.
- July 19, 2014As 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.
- July 18, 2014In order to better the economic circumstances of their constituency, Democrats should do something they have consistently avoided: taking a side in a class war.