Tag: economy

Federal employees have child care fees to add to long lists of expenses for households that live paycheck to paycheck.

What will happen if robots, AI, and automation displace a huge percentage of workers. How will there be enough consumers to buy all the goods and services produced if there is a big drop in earnings?

America’s wealthy have never been wealthier. They should pay their fair share of taxes. The big switcheroo should be reversed.

But poverty deniers won't look deeper, because they don't want to admit that anyone willing to work could be suffering in the richest country in the world.

This Trump-created crisis and the standoff that ensued give us an early indication of how little the Democratic Party as a whole has changed.

No matter how deeply flawed such geopolitical visions may ultimately prove to be, their brief moments as official policy have regularly shaped the destiny of nations and of empires in unpredictable, unplanned, and often dangerous ways.

Bernie Sanders in a keynote speech on healthcare, raising the minimum wage and his bipartisan resolution to end military support for the U.S.-backed, Saudi-led bombing of Yemen.

Old Ben Franklin said it best: “A penny saved is a penny earned.” Hear that all you Wal-Mart shoppers?

About 93 percent of charitable foundation money is parked in Wall Street investments. But foundations are starting to make better choices.

So if Americans agree that our elders should never again return to having to age in poverty, there are several ways we can shore up the Social Security system.