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In Richmond, California, home prices plummeted 58 percent since their peak. Now the city is trying out a new way to help homeowners refinance—and halt the slide into foreclosure.

Low-paid adjunct faculty, who are mostly female, have started unionizing for better pay—and winning.

The Nation's Greg Kaufmann joined Stand Up! With Pete Dominick to argue that there are ways to alleviate poverty in America and that it starts with increasing the minimum wage.

One man on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission holds the key vote in a crucial decision about derivatives trading that could prevent—or enable—more bank bailouts.

If cab drivers in Chicago win their lawsuit to become employees of the city, their jobs will become a lot less terrible.

A resurgent protest culture fights back against Rahm Emanuel’s austerity agenda.

The reform-minded senator talks tough, and she knows where the bodies are buried.

I leaned out when I should have leaned in. But the problem is about much more than individual women’s choices.

Inside the new—and exploitative—temporary economy.

The right-wing think tank received big money from Taiwan’s government at the same time that it was churning out policy papers and articles urging US military aid to Taipei.