At the 1992 Republican National Convention, then Vice Presidential nominee Dan Quayle summed up his thoughts on taxing those with greatest wealth at higher rates with...
Domestic workers in California — and groups and people who support better employment conditions for them nationwide — are hailing a new bill of labor rights...
As anyone thinking about enrolling in a college or university knows, tuition is not cheap. The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) notes that...
In a new report, University of Southern California professor and warehousing and logistics expert Juan D. de Lara reveals that the local warehousing industry is relying...
It is 3 p.m., June 27, 2013 and I find myself walking on the sidewalk along Pacific Coast Highway in Newport Beach. Just like any other...
On ABC’s This Week, Newt Gingrich and I debated whether House Republicans should be able to repeal a law — in this case, the Affordable Care...
Negotiating a fair contract is a complex process that involves hard work and commitment from both labor and management. When both sides bargain in good faith...
for at least an hour. Maybe longer. It was longer. No one spoke, looked away, or drew attention with their hands. A few of us opened...
It’s been 100 years since ideological conservatives joined with doctors and insurance companies to kill the first movement in the United States for what was then...
My name is Dana Wilson and I am a professional dancer. Whether I am performing with a major recording artist, or busting a move in television...
Recovery? What recovery? The economic outlook may have picked up for some Americans, but not for those in the bottom income brackets – and especially children...
Two years ago the “Occupy” movement roared into view, summoning the energies and attention of large numbers of people who felt the economic system had got...
One in four adolescents in California—nearly one million—aren’t getting as much physical activity as they need to maintain a healthy weight. When a young Latino child...
Here’s a surprisingly little secret: You know all those dates you see on food products—sell by, use by, best before? Those dates do not indicate the...
Are our rich content? It’s a question that bounces back and forth in the blogosphere. Are elites, economic and otherwise, happy with the pace of the...
(Note: Katha Pollitt’s feature first appeared in The Nation and is republished with permission.) Here’s a little window into poverty, American- style. According to a Yale...
In 2004, after a long string of Republican governors and the shockingly narrow defeat of Prop. 72—which would have ushered in the most progressive health care...
Forbes magazine, which calls itself the “capitalist tool,” seems to have a penchant for publishing right-wing diatribes posing as serious economic analyses. The latest is by...
Lazy. Out of touch. Greedy. Self-serving. Thuggish. Chances are you’ve heard a union member or leader called one of these things (and in all likelihood, more...
They wake like cosmetic surgery patients. Memories of crawling vanish as the sun warms the body they could not have dreamed of: Dog Face, Provence Chalk-Hill...