With the struggling economy in mind, a growing number of younger students are passing up 4-year colleges -- and enrolling at community colleges instead.
The stock market may be up, but for working people the global political economy is likely to remain in crisis for at least another three to five years.
Frank discusses one of the most important political developments of the Obama presidency: how the crash of 2008 served to strengthen the political right.
Andy Kroll, deleted, Mother Jones. November 8, 2011.
The "pay cap" the Obama administration put on seven bailed-out companies was largely symbolic. Here are the unaffected players still making bank off the bubble and the bailout.
With America facing the greatest income gap since the Great Depression, the largely unpublicized link between financial inequality and drug addiction suggests big trouble ahead.
Nathan Birnbaum, Campaign for America's Future. August 11, 2011.
Allstate Insurance, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, and the University of Arizona are just a few of the companies advertising that they will only hire people who already have jobs.
Just a few short months ago, few analysts would say publicly that the American economy was likely to slide into another grueling period of recession. That's changed.
A new report finds that the vast majority of the jobs created in the so-called recovery have been low-wage jobs. That's a recipe for continued economic pain.
The economic crisis has hit most families hard--but since many black families had less wealth to start with, its impact on them has been nothing short of disastrous.
"Wrongful" foreclosures, foreclosures for back taxes or late condo fees -- people are getting thrown out of their homes, and someone else is profiting.
Every demographic has been hit hard by the recession, but the unemployment rate for single mothers is 14.6 percent, its highest level in over 25 years.
