With relentless misinformation from the likes of Ted Cruz, Fox News and the conservative media machine, you may be under the impression that President Obama has been a complete disaster for jobs in America. Obamacare, socialist government expansion, and handouts to the poor have ...read more

I always used to think that I didn't get much done when working from home - I'd often pop out to the store to pick up groceries, take a nap, make phone calls to friends and watch the occasional TV show when bored. And I never felt particularly stressed. However, I managed to ...read more

The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits fell to a four-year low last week, suggesting employers kept hiring in March at a healthy pace. Weekly applications dropped 6,000 to a seasonally adjusted 357,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. That's the fewest ...read more

By Mark Ames: A little over a year ago, while researching the Confederacy’s economy, I stumbled across this unnerving graph charting the value of America’s “stock of slaves” in the last decades before the Civil War. This graph tells the real story behind the South’s secession: ...read more

According to a recent study by the Center for American Progress, Americans now believe that what most industrialized countries consider a full work week is in fact part time. Reports the Business Insider: Americans consider a 40-hour work week as "part time" in most professional ...read more

Richard Wolff describes the economic reality facing most people living in post-crash America: The combination of high unemployment and high home foreclosures assures a deeply depressed economy. The mass of US citizens cannot work more hours – the US already is No 1 in the ...read more