business and economy

Farmworkers have been excluded from labor rights laws enacted in the Jim Crow era. Now, it’s largely immigrants who are excluded from organized labor’s protections.

Thousands of people have been protesting in France this week, as the government tries to pass a law making it easier for struggling businesses to fire their staff.

Renewable energy may have remarkable cost advantages in the long-term, compared with fossil fuels.

What if instead of increasing spending on the military, that money was spent in other ways. Use our interactive and find out how a cut in global military spending could fund projects like climate change mitigation or ending world hunger.

It’s been a long journey, one that skirted death at least once. So Ali Jaffari at first thought it was a scam when a Greek friend offered his family of four a room at a three-star hotel in Athens.