Giant retail chains are counting up their poor showings in 2013. Their answer? Store closings and layoffs. In this attack…
Here is a major headline item that never made it to the headlines: The Commerce Department has revised downward by…
Detroit -- A standing-room-only audience at Central United Methodist Church participated in an Emergency Town Hall meeting March 2 in…
Low-wage workers are carrying out a determined and heroic struggle to force giant corporations like McDonalds, Starbucks, Walmart and others…
Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr’s “Plan of Adjustment” is a declaration of war on the city of Detroit’s 20,000 retirees and…
A recent issue of Bloomberg Business Week ran a feature headline: “Student Loans, the Next Big Threat to the Economy?”…
As propane prices soar, 25 states have declared an energy emergency, but it came too late for Debbie Dogskin. And…
The scramble for profits is again leading to overproduction and the pushing of high-interest loans, this time in the auto…
An editorial in our last issue explained how a simple statistic arrived at in an Oxfam study on wealth illuminates…
Between 2009 and 2012, years of so-called U.S. economic “recovery,” 90 percent of the increase in consumption was accounted for…