Economy
October 27, 2011 -
A comprehensive new report from the Congressional Budget Office shows that the gap between rich and poor in the United States has grown dramatically over the past 30 years and is greatest in Southern cities.
October 25, 2011 -
An undocumented farmworker leader was deported last week, reinforcing the findings of a new Farm Labor Organizing Committee report that says tobacco pickers struggling to organize are stymied by fear.
October 24, 2011 -
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain revised his tax proposal in response to criticism that it would disproportionately burden the poor. But the new plan would still hit low-income Americans hard.
October 24, 2011 -
American oil and security firms see big opportunities in post-Gaddafi Libya.
October 21, 2011 -
As all-out attack continues on immigrants in the South and West, Alabama's immigrant workers met it with a day of wildcat strikes.
October 20, 2011 -
North Mississippi Rural Legal Services is closing its office in the region's largest city and shuttering a unit that handles public benefits issues -- at the very time the public needs its services more than ever.
October 19, 2011 -
The proposal would have most Americans paying far more in taxes -- and most millionaires paying far less.