Immigrants in the United States, as well as activists supporting immigrant workers’ rights, are wondering what the impact of the current national and world financial crisis will be on immigration, and on efforts to get a better deal for immigrant workers, with or without papers, under the new administration.

The Buy America provision in the economic recovery package Congress now is finalizing has some rich and powerful voices against it.

After ignoring the growth of an $8 trillion housing bubble, fueled by junk loans issued by over-leveraged banks, the "free-trade" crew is worried that a "buy America" provision in the stimulus bill will give us a trade war leading to another Great Depression.

Under strong pressure from constituents, the US Senate today, Feb. 9, knocked down an attempted GOP filibuster of President Obama's $800 billion economic recovery package.

As record numbers of American workers filed for unemployment benefits in the final days of January and new government data released Feb. 6 revealed that 598,000 more jobs were lost last month, Senators have stalled the president's economic recovery package.

This years' gathering at Davos appears to have been a complete dud. It's hard for one who wasn't there to say how complete but if President Obama is reading the reports from the celebrated Swiss mountaintop he has to be glad he didn't go and that he didn't send a high powered delegation.

Barack Obama's victory is indeed an historic breakthrough for US politics. In a country that enforced a system of legalized racism until just 40 years ago, and that was founded on white supremacy, Black slavery and Native genocide, the election of the first Black president is cause for jubilation.

Who would have dreamed a year ago we would be here today with a new government and our first African American President, Barack Obama. This was an election that changed history. It forced us to face up to and struggle with issues of race and class.

I was standing on the Washington Mall on Inauguration Day, alongside nearly two million other people on Inauguration Day, and proudly watched the first African American take the oath of office in our nation’s history.

Capitol Hill telephone lines have lit up. Tens of thousands of voters across the country have been calling their US Senators demanding passage of President Obama's economic recovery package without any more delays.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – The same Republican-owned law firm that may have tried to help Michigan Republicans hand an electoral victory to John McCain here in the November presidential election may also be blocking effective foreclosure relief legislation.

For a brief moment, when Congress authorized that $700 billion bailout for the Wall Street wise guys whose recklessness caused the financial crisis that we’re all suffering, federal officials actually considered giving part of the money to foreign banks.

Some congressional Republicans who voted for a massive $700 Wall Street bailout, billions each for just a handful of banks and investment firms, are now trying to block a bailout for Main Street. For example, Republican Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) urged his House Republican friends to vote yes for the Wall Street bailout last October.

I've got good news and bad news, President Obama told the American people in his weekly address over the weekend. Government data released last week revealed that the economy shrank by nearly four percent in the closing months of 2008 and people seeking unemployment benefits grew to record numbers.

A recent article for Money magazine trivializes the New Deal's role during the Great Depression. It reflects, in a simplistic and factually inaccurately way, what conservative historians have sought to argue about the New Deal, namely that it made the depression worse by its intervention in the economy.

One feature of the extraordinary year that has ended was the extreme volatility of global commodity markets. Because economic analysts have become so short-sighted, each of these rapid movements has been over-interpreted as reflecting structural changes in global demand and supply rather than conjunctural forces that are liable to change.

Every Christmas season a large electric star visible for miles is illuminated on a mountainside overlooking Bethlehem, Pa., to commemorate the time the holy family of Christianity took refuge in a manger on the night of Christ’s birth.

President Barack Obama began this week the arduous task of reversing the Bush administration's anti-working families policies. Welcoming labor movement leaders, small business owners, and representatives of not-for-profit groups to the White House Friday, Jan. 30, Obama issued three executive orders that will promote the rights of workers.

Coal miners are now suffering from black lung disease at a higher rate than in the previous decade. In fact, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the prevalence of black lung disease has doubled over the past five years.

Taking the case for passing his economic recovery plan to the people in his first weekly video address as president, Barack Obama emphasized the need to pass the measure in order to offset growing unemployment and declining family incomes.