Nation Topics - Economics | The Nation

It’s now the only governing institution that understands the depths of the economic crisis.

Death of a Salesman speaks to our time on the failure of competitive capitalism.

Republicans are fighting Dodd-Frank's mechanism for dismantling failing financial firms.

Twelve red states account for 70 percent of all state and local public sector jobs lost since 2010.

Research exaggerating the costs of social safety nets has been used for decades to launch unwarranted claims against government programs.

The Other America offered a view of poverty that seemed designed to comfort the already comfortable.

There may be tension but there isn’t a class war within the Republican Party, because they’re all on the same side.

The eurocrisis fully exposes the folly of deficit mania in a time of recession. So why are the GOP candidates still oblivious?

In less than two years, Athens has changed from a reasonably prosperous capital to a broken city.

Women dominate growing sectors like retail and home healthcare—but the jobs there are grueling and the wages are low.