Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Cuts Schools, Pensions to Subsidize Corporate Friends

Government documents reveal the city has $1.7 billion in special accounts used to finance corporate subsidies – though the mayor claimed "budget constraints" forced mass school closures and pension cuts.

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Walmart's Bangladeshi Workers End 11-Day Hunger Strike And Receive Back Pay

1,600 workers in five clothing factories, most of them women earning less than $70 a month, had been on hunger strike since July 28.

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Senator Who Owns Stock in Coal Utilities is Fighting EPA Carbon Rules

Millionaire senator David Vitter just released an report designed to skewer the EPA, but he forgot to mention that he stands to lose economically if the proposed Obama's carbon rules are implemented.

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Will a Vulture Hedge-Fund Billionaire Drown Argentina In Debt?

The U.S. president need only inform a federal judge that Paul Singer is interfering with the president's sole authority to conduct foreign policy – so why hasn't he done it?

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The OIRA Effect: Lobbyists Block Regulations Through Secretive White House Office

Washington lobbyists often find a receptive ear within the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, an arm of the White House that conducts much of its business in secret.

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New York Sex Trade Filling with In-Debt Graduates and "Average Everyday Women"

With an Ivy League education, Anna is currently paying off $47,000 in student debt – an amount that would be much higher, she says, if she hadn't had the supplemental income sex work provides.

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Corporations Renouncing U.S. "Citizenship" Bilk Billions from Federal Revenue

So far this year, a dozen U.S. companies including well-known brands like Medtronic and Chiquita have merged with foreign firms, shifting their headquarters offshore to avoid U.S. taxes.

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Here's How Conde Nast Tries to Enlist Celebs to Make Propaganda for Monsanto

Monsanto, which has been a target of environmental and human rights activists for decades now, is well aware of the constant need to burnish its own reputation.

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Exposed: America Forces Tar Sands Oil On Europe Defying Fuel Law and Climate Peril

U.S. negotiators of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership are attempting to block European attempts to tackle climate change, according to leaked documents.

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Filthy Chicken Rule: Privatizing Poultry Inspection Puts the Fox In the Henhouse

Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released the final rule that will transfer most poultry inspection from government inspectors to the companies so they can police themselves.

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