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fracking

Farming communities are being turned into huge, open-air laboratories by energy companies—with ordinary people serving as guinea pigs.

Wall Street

Battalions of regulatory lawyers burrowed deep in the federal bureaucracy to foil reform.

The difference between rich and poor is stunting economic growth, the mayoral candidate says.

Lemoore, California

Without its lifeline, a stream of federal aid, Lemoore is in crisis mode—and residents of all political stripes are united in outrage.

Chicago workers strike

Demanding a living wage of $15 per hour, employees at Macy’s, Subway, McDonald’s, Victoria’s Secret and more have walked off the job.

A history of how risk management profits from manufacturing new forms of uncertainty and insecurity.

Fast Food Forward

From the Bronx to Brooklyn, workers at car washes and fast food joints are finding ways to fight for their rights.

New York’s housing crisis has pushed hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers underground.

As change nips at the edges of the Bronx, the borough’s iconic auto-glass workers continue their daily street-dance.

A writer navigates the empty streets and boarded-up businesses of his childhood.

Blogs

Sixty-two percent of all bankruptcies are due to medical debt—and Occupy activists aren’t letting the medical-industrial complex get away with it.

March 22, 2013

Democrats have an economic duty—and a political opportunity—to counter the House Budget with a robust growth agenda, which Americans favor across the spectrum.

March 21, 2013

Workers won their jobs back with a three-week strike, but then got fired all over again.

March 20, 2013

Tens of millions of Americans can rise out of extreme poverty—if policy-makers respond to a growing national movement.

March 20, 2013

The difficult conditions that affect domestic workers also plague nurses in hospitals.

March 20, 2013

While the mainstream media obsesses over Paul Ryan's extremist budget proposal, the Congressional Progressive Caucus has quietly devised an effective plan to create jobs and cut the deficit.

March 19, 2013

The US’s guest worker program is riddled with holes—and abuse. Just ask McDonald’s workers on “cultural exchange.”

March 18, 2013

The plan to tax savers’ deposits in Cyprus's ailing banks will deepen political fault lines in the Eurozone—and hurt local people first.

March 18, 2013

The numbers on job creation and unemployment are not as positive as they first appear—just watch American Winter.

March 18, 2013

Thomas Perez once pushed for a domestic workers’ bill of rights. Could he help the movement at the federal level?

March 18, 2013