Nation Topics - Economy | The Nation

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

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.

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

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.

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.