Unemployment worsened to 5 percent—sinking a whopping three-tenths of percentage point, from 4.7 percent in November, the largest single jump since the slowdown following Sept. 11, 2001.

Chinese President Hu Jintao said here on Monday that China attaches great importance to sustainable development and will take a series of measures to better safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of workers.

Corn producers predicted hunger and social disaster in Mexico"s poorest sectors, due to the lifting of tariffs on corn imports from the United States and Canada, by virtue of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Though actions blocking imports of subsidized US grains ended Wednesday, rejection of the North American Free Trade Agreement keeps growing in Mexico.

The central goal of the United States is control of the planet, power to install governments subservient to its demands, power to privatize and deregulate the economies of every nation in the world, the power to inflict on peoples everywhere “free market” corporate capitalism.

Social class is usually treated as though it doesn't exist. But for working families struggling without good jobs or adequate pay, who lack health care or decent housing, the systemic economic divisions that determine their life chances.

Robert Reich served under President Clinton as his Secretary of Labor and is proud of the fact that he served what he calls "one of the most pro-business administrations in American history."

The Venezuelan economy enters its fifth consecutive year of sustained growth in 2008, according to predictions from the Economic Commission for Latin America (CEPAL).

With 28% of nearly 10,000 votes cast, Smithfield Chairman Joseph Luter III narrowly beat out American Airlines CEO Gerard Arpey to win the seventh annual online "Grinch of the Year" election sponsored by National Jobs with Justice.

Presidents Evo Morales (Bolivia), Michelle Bachelet (Chile) and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Brazil) agreed Sunday in La Paz to build, starting mid-2009, a 4,700 kilometer corridor uniting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Venezuela continues its program to help low-income US families get through the cold winter season. This year’s heating oil donation plan began Wednesday in a poor neighborhood in the US capital.

More than 500 artists, writers and scholars from the United States have signed on to a letter to President Bush requesting he put an end to the nearly half-century blockade against Cuba and stop impeding cultural exchange between the two nations.

First of all, the People’s Weekly World (which continues the Daily Worker, founded in 1924) has a very long history of what we call working-class journalism.

Mexican national and regional rural organizations demanded on Tuesday that the government suspend the trade agreement with North America.

Hay dos causas básicas e interrelacionadas: las hipotecas de alto riesgo (“subprime”) y la burbuja sin precedente en los precios de inmuebles. Las hipotecas de alto riesgo ocupan todos los titulares.

Costa Ricans are coming to realize that sticking with the status quo might not be such a bad thing. In terms of trade, most Costa Rican produce will continue to enjoy duty-free access to the US market due to the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI).

Few critics would deny that in 2006 the economy of Latin America and the Caribbean reported growth performance at the highest rate since the 1970s. The present acceleration began in 2004 with a GDP increase of 5.9 percent.

Does the fact that more of the poor are turning to microcredit sources serve as an indicator of its virtues, or does it, instead, demonstrate the lack of available public alternatives and increased government outsourcing of possible solutions to problems affecting issues of societal equity?

There is growing concern in recent times about a most elusive set of intermediaries managing assets for financial investors: private equity firms. What are these entities? How do they behave? And what are the implications of their growing presence?

World cereal production is on track to reach a record level in 2007. In spite of this, supplies will be barely adequate to meet increased demand, boosted by the development of the biofuels industry.