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Obama: Collective bargaining can close the income gap

December 5, 2013 By Mark Gruenberg

In a wide-ranging speech on the state of the economy, President Obama took sharp aim at income inequality, citing the growing gulf between the rich and the rest of us.

Detroit bankruptcy: Revenue, not spending, the problem

December 3, 2013 By John Rummel

The ruling concerns the 23,500 retired city workers collecting pension benefits.

Pope calls church to action to liberate poor

December 2, 2013 By Henry Millstein

In Pope Francis' document, he denounces the anti-human effects of the "idolatry"of the market and the radical wealth inequality resulting from it, but what is really new is making this issue the center of the Catholic...

Francis does it again: Attacking the “tyranny” of unfettered capitalism

November 27, 2013 By PAI

Francis I is blasting the "tyranny" of unfettered capitalism, economic inequity and financial finagling.

National Labor College to close

November 15, 2013 By PAI

"I am saddened to report that the Board of Trustees directed me and the college's officers to develop a plan to close the college," said the institution's president.