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This report is the first to calculate how much taxpayers have been subsidizing executive bonuses at the nation’s largest banks. Read More...

The issue: Since the Occupy Wall Street movement took over New York’s Zuccotti Park in 2011, income inequality has become a major political issue in the United States. Less often discussed is the role labor unions play in protecting workers’ wages. In America, according to an estimate from Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, the top 1 percent...

Obama administration officials are preparing to implement a controversial two-year-old executive order that will give agencies greater ability to deny federal contracts to companies with labor-law violations. Read More...