The Fed Won’t Help the Working Class The Fed Won’t Help the Working Class
By pumping more money into the economy to bail out hedge funds and subprime lenders, the Federal Reserve will only worsen inflation's bite into average Americans' paychecks.
Aug 31, 2007 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
Travails of the Super-Rich Travails of the Super-Rich
Just in time for Labor Day, a new report on the gap between the boss and the average worker is a gleefully malicious attack on the richest CEOs.
Aug 31, 2007 / Editorial / Barbara Ehrenreich
Whole Foods CEO Sows Wild Oats Whole Foods CEO Sows Wild Oats
America's favorite natural grocery chain is looking like just another greedy, antiunion corporation.
Aug 28, 2007 / Feature / Matthew Blake
Big Brother Democracy Big Brother Democracy
Protesters in Quebec were treated like contestants in a reality show--put in a field and watched on TV monitors.
Aug 23, 2007 / Column / Naomi Klein
The Economy Debates The Economy Debates
Want to know the real differences between the candidates? Listen to what they say about the economy.
Aug 23, 2007 / Editorial / Katrina vanden Heuvel and Robert L. Borosage
Bush’s Immigration Clampdown Crimped Bush’s Immigration Clampdown Crimped
A federal judge in San Francisco has put on hold new Homeland Security regulations designed to crack down on illegal immigrants in the workplace.
Aug 22, 2007 / Feature / David Bacon
Smashing Capitalism Smashing Capitalism
The victims of the housing market's collapse are crippling an unjust economic system.
Aug 20, 2007 / Editorial / Barbara Ehrenreich
The NAFTA Superhighway The NAFTA Superhighway
The NAFTA Superhighway is a total myth. But the private Trans-Texas Corridor is all too real, foretelling a future America in which globalism and crony capitalism eclipse governmen...
Aug 9, 2007 / Feature / Chris Hayes
Inflation’s Undertow Inflation’s Undertow
Stop the rejoicing about the rise in the minimum wage. Thanks to inflation, the prosperity of the working poor and the middle class is at real and rising risk.
Aug 3, 2007 / Column / Nicholas von Hoffman
The New Bipartisan Capitalism The New Bipartisan Capitalism
A new study addressing the plight the American worker in a global economy tries to solve economic inequity through tax policy rather than systemic change. A much broader vision is ...
Jul 31, 2007 / Editorial / Daniel Morris