I have written about the link between wages and obesity before--with wages dropping since the 60s and healthy food prices always going up, people eat more unhealthy food. But now two economists have drilled down into these issues and claim to have found

Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told the buyers it was secretly betting that a sharp drop in U.S. housing prices would send the value of those securities plummeting

Apparently, every day is Halloween at Walmart headquarters. For months, Walmart has been dressed up as a health care champion: trumpeting support for the employer mandate and running ads about how "proud" it is of its health care record. In truth, Walmart

Well, folks, whether you love him or hate him, Michael Moore has made yet another documentary to stir the emotions of any politically, socially, or ethically minded person in the country. Granted, many people may think of Moore as a liberal supporter of

The benchmark revisions will show job loss was 824,000 larger than originally reported. The loss of 263,000 payroll jobs, coupled with a 0.1 hour decline in the average workweek, pushed the index of aggregate hours to 98.5, slightly below the 98.6 leve

With 2008 sales topping $400 billion, Walmart's actions will have a dramatic influence. And this influence will be felt well beyond the 100,000 or so Walmart suppliers. When it was released in July, Walmart's 15-question Product Sustainability Index was

Sign the online petition today! Help workers get 25,000 signatures by the end of the month! We've been telling you about the outrageous behavior of Giumarra--the world's largest table grape company, whose labels include Nature's Partner

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The meeting of CEOs and world leaders aims to come up with specific, profitable ways to address humanitarian issues and spur economic growth Innovation as a driver of worldwide economic recovery and growth is the key theme at the Fifth Clinton Global Ini

Wal-Mart is now the nation's largest grocer and pharmacy, with sales exceeding the combined total of major competitors, including Target, Safeway, Albertsons, Kohl's, and Kroger. How did Sam Walton develop a rural, southern discount store into the planet