"In the United States, it is possible to work full-time, full-year and still live in poverty," states the soon-to-be-released book The State of Working America, 2006/2007, the indispensable annual publication of the non-partisan Economic Policy Institute (EPI).

Thus the real question is: why should the danger of higher interest rates in the US weaken sentiments in equity markets worldwide, resulting in the generalised downturn in global markets?

U.S. employers have quietly been raking in extraordinarily high profits for the past two years while holding wages down and shifting more benefit costs onto workers. Real wages will decline further as economic growth slows in the United States and worldwide over the next year.

Michigan voters can’t trust Dick DeVos. He says one thing – about jobs, Michigan schools, and ethics – but his record says another.

Homeless advocates are planning a fabulous redesign of the Peachtree and Pine Homeless Shelter into a major community hub, where the homeless will eventually run a coffee shop, restaurant, market, art studio, and rooftop garden, to enhance downtown culture and provide themselves a way out of poverty.

A half century ago, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black reminded us in Griffin v. Illinois (1956) that there “can be no equal justice where the\ kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.”

For quite some time now, the post-war welfare state has been on the retreat in France as in many other nations in Europe, giving way to neo-liberal politics and economics. However, this is for the first time that a massive student movement erupted against the neo-liberal reforms.

As Bush continues to troll for votes to shore up Republicans in the November elections, the immigration debate moves further away from any informed discussion of why workers uproot themselves and make treacherous journeys to other countries, only to take miserable jobs with employers who exploit them in every imaginable way.

The new spike in oil and gasoline prices is the last nail in the coffin for workers who hoped to see any real improvement in wages this year.

They use their own secret language to communicate with one another, a language that says one thing on the surface but has a hidden subtext that, if recognized, allows the reader to translate "Capitalese" (the secret dialect of the capitalists) into more meaningful ordinary English.

I, like millions of other former and ongoing Verizon customers, watched my phone bills rise sharply for local calls while a deregulated Verizon got into Internet, cell phones, TV, etc., making us pay for both their investments in the new technologies and their discounts to new customers for relatively expensive services.

President Bush’s 2007 budget that was released last month includes significant cuts in housing assistance. The new budget for the Housing Choice Voucher Program underfunds 70 percent of the state and municipal housing agencies that oversee the program.

General Motors, with a $90.9 billion pension fund – the largest among U.S. companies – announced on March 7 that it will freeze pension benefits for nonunion workers.

A week or so ago, George W Bush was in India, glad-handing everyone in sight while furiously stoking a hi-tech arms race on the sub-continent.

The Republican bosses have sneaked one by us again. Congressional Republican leaders have pushed for two very important changes to the federal student loan program.

Tuesday the 24th of January this year was not particularly momentous: nothing catastrophic or startlingly rare or even extraordinary happened. It was, really, a typical day.

True science, a dispassionate search for the truth, can only thrive in environments conducive to free inquiry and intellectual honesty.

Beginning in 2003 with Bush’s military escalation and the war on Iraq, the U.S. resumed its military buildup and put a quick end to improvements in domestic programs.



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