The United States has a higher rate of poverty than other advanced democracies . This has led to a situation where many people struggle to make ends meet, despite working and living in a wealthy country.

Many remember watching "The Wizard of Oz" as a child. We were captivated by the magical world of Oz and the characters who roamed its colorful countryside.

The American welfare system was designed to support those in need, but it now faces significant challenges. Learn about its origins, current issues, and potential reforms, such as Universal Basic Income and universal healthcare, to create a balanced welfare state that works for all.

Republicans and Democrats are again playing a game of chicken over the U.S. debt ceiling – with the nation’s financial stability at stake.

Whether you’re booking a plane ticket at the last minute, hoping to snag seats for a popular concert or looking to go to a lackluster preseason football game, you might encounter what’s known as dynamic pricing.

Americans seeking wisdom about the state of their economy will gain little insight from mainstream economics writers. They are like detectives called to investigate an assault. They note boot prints in the garden, the broken living room window and the smell of gunpowder. But they fail to observe the three dead bodies.

A new economic model would need to be win/win, far different from the win/lose paradigm under which we’ve been operating.

Forgiving student debt is not a slap at anybody; it's righting a moral wrong inflicted on millions by Reagan and his morbidly rich Republican buddies.

It’s an odd quirk of history that, on the first day of his ill-fated presidential campaign in March 1968, Robert F Kennedy chose to talk to his audience about the limitations of gross domestic product* (GDP) – the world’s headline indicator of economic progress.

Reproductive health isn’t just about abortion, despite all the attention the procedure gets. It’s also about access to family planning services, contraception, sex education and much else – all of which have also come under threat in recent years.

Health care workers experienced high rates of potential “moral injury” that are comparable to rates experienced by military veterans, according to a new study.

As a scholar of the labor movement who has observed union drives for two decades, what I find almost as striking as the victories is the unconventional nature of the organizing campaigns. Both the Starbucks and Amazon-Staten Island campaigns have been led by determined young workers.

The United States was founded at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and has met with extraordinary business success from the days of its founding. Upon that success was built the broad prosperity of the new nation and the opportunity for great fortunes for the bold.

Economists typically focus on the three big macroeconomic variables: gross domestic product, unemployment and inflation.

Russia’s war against Ukraine will change the landscape of global energy and its geopolitics in profound ways. Pieces of this terrain have already begun shifting.

There’s a growing bipartisan push to prohibit members of Congress from buying or selling stocks. The shift follows news reports that several senators sold stocks shortly after receiving coronavirus briefings in early 2020 and that at least 57 lawmakers have failed to disclose financial transactions since 2012 as required by law.

New research finds men’s risk tolerance and overconfidence play a role in the gender wage gap.

There have been some standout successes for some countries dealing with this Covid pandemic.

Sixteen universities – including six in the Ivy League – are accused in a lawsuit of having engaged in price fixing and unfairly limiting financial aid by using a shared methodology to calculate the financial need of applicants.

Millions of Americans have no health insurance and even if the do they live in fear that one illness could bankrupt them.

Dickens consciously thought of A Christmas Carol as a message book, which he hoped would deliver what he called a 'sledge-hammer' blow on behalf of ameliorating the suffering of the urban poor

The means to achieve quality healthcare for all is there. All that is lacking is the people's will and demand. But how?

The means to achieve quality healthcare for all is there. All that is lacking is the people's will and demand. But how?