College tuition and fees have risen about three times as much a median family income since the Reagan administration, reported a new study this week from the Center for Public Policy and Education.

Adel Abu Sido, 31, a taxi driver from Gaza City, stands over his two-week old premature baby, Hadil, dreading her air supply may abruptly stop.

Strengthening the ability of workers to join or organize labor unions may be the key to economic recovery. While approximately only 10 percent of American workers are currently members of unions, a new survey published this week by Gallup found that about six in 10 workers have a positive view of labor unions.

I drive an American car. It's a Chrysler. That's not an endorsement. It's more like a cry for pity. And now for a decades-old story, retold ad infinitum by tens of millions of Americans, a third of whom have had to desert their country to simply find a damn way to get to work in something that won't break down.

It comes as no surprise that he will be named Ebony magazine's "person of the year." In an exclusive interview with that magazine, set to hit newsstands on Dec. 9th, President-elect Barack Obama reiterated some of the basic themes that won him the election.

In a segment titled "Talk Me Down" on Dec. 2, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow spoke with United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard who fired back at right-wing and corporate attacks on working families as the cause of the financial crisis.

A broad coalition, which includes some of the country's biggest LGBT civil rights organizations, reiterated this week its support for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), a law that would make it easier for workers to join or organize labor unions.

Georgia State University Assistant Professors in Sociology, Erin Ruel and Deirdre Oakley, have released a preliminary report recommending, among other things, that some public housing units in Atlanta be kept open for residents who do not want to move.

United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1500, New York State’s largest grocery workers Union, has called for an immediate investigation by Federal, State and Local authorities into the “avoidable” death of a Wal-mart worker at the Valley Stream, Long Island Wal-mart.

Many of us have little or no use for phonebooks anymore. While such directories are helpful for that occasional look-up of a service provider or pizza place, consumers and businesses increasingly rely on the Internet to find goods and services.

The book Project Censored 2009 is a powerful denunciation of the US mainstream media, which purposely silences certain news stories of public interest, said Chilean journalist Ernesto Carmona as he presented the book today in Havana.

A Liberal-NDP coalition supported by the Bloc Quebecois to oust the Harper Conservatives may be taking shape. The Conservative Government is maneuvering desperately to remain in power. A non-confidence motion may happen next week.

The rumors proved true. President-elect Obama, Monday, Dec. 1, announced the top figures in his national security cabinet. Hillary Clinton will head the State Department. Jim Jones will serve as National Security Advisor....

HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 3 (acn) The 30th International Havana Festival of the New Latin American Cinema will open here on Tuesday with a sample distinctive of today’s African film creation.

Pressured by fishermen, Okinawa Governor Nakaima Hirokazu for the first time joined the prefectural association of fishermen's cooperatives in making representations to the Foreign Ministry, the Defense Ministry, and the US Ambassador to Japan.

Unfortunately for beach lovers and owners of high-priced beach-front homes, coastal erosion in any form is usually a one-way trip. Human-made techniques such as beach nourishment may slow the process, but nothing short of global cooling or some other major geomorphic change will stop it altogether.

When Gaza's electricity is in working order, most Palestinians in the impoverished and overcrowded Strip huddle around their television screens. It's neither "American Idol" nor "Dancing with the Stars" that brings them together. It's the news.

As the Atlanta Police Department's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Liaison, Officer Darlene Harris has served as a symbol assuring fair treatment and greater protection since 2005, when she was appointed to this post.

The Pentagon has used the No Child Left Behind Act as a Trojan Horse to propagandize vulnerable teenage students, invade their privacy, harass them, and get them to enlist.