From a draconian new proposal in Iowa to farm bill deliberations in Washington, the ideological battles over food aid will soon kick off—and no one knows who will end up paying the price.

We ought to be living in a country where service employees are paid a decent wage. Until that day arrives—tip, and tip generously.

Your boss asking for a doctor’s note is more about controlling labor than worker health.

How can the World Economic Forum earnestly pretend to address global crises while being funded by the corporations that fuel these crises?

There are now over 100 pilot programs nationwide offering families direct cash support.

The debt ceiling is a legendarily ridiculous problem. Fortunately, there is a ridiculously legendary solution.

The Labor Department report found that the unemployment rate is 3.468 percent, a level not seen since 1969.

Last year was the year of legislation. This year is the year of making the changes stick and proving that public investment trumps neoliberalism.

As a policy, the 2021 expansion was historically successful, cutting child poverty nearly in half. But it died by politics this year. Can it be revived in 2023?

The carrier’s holiday-season omnishambles can't be completely attributed to the snow.

It wasn’t great, but the 1970s did not return, and in 2023 the economic indicator we’ll be talking about will be unemployment.

How the consulting firm’s cost-cutting logic devoured America

After years of unwarranted hype ballooned its value, the crypto market came crashing down in 2022, bankrupting billionaires and naïve investors alike. Has America learned its lesson?

A pair of plaintiffs are seeking redress over gallingly abusive property seizures, but it’s not certain that the Supreme Court will intervene.

How Democrats can heed the lessons of 2022 in the year to come

More on what exactly the increase in the interest rate means

Inflation cooled in November, according to a new report released by the Labor Department. Let’s put that in context.

The expanded tax credit, which Congress let expire, helped dramatically reduce child poverty.

While progressives couldn’t manage a clean sweep, Angelenos have sent a slew of fresh faces to elected office and handed them a mandate for change.

The California Democratic congressman talks about the new House leadership, the railroad strike—and his vision for reconnecting his party to the working class.