budget crisis

750,000 walk off jobs in Britain

July 1, 2011 By Will Stone And Richard Bagley

Hundreds of thousands of public-sector workers the length and breadth of Britain defied slurs and threats Thursday to mount one of the biggest walkouts since the country's 1926 General Strike.

Bernie Sanders goes into action for real shared sacrifice

June 29, 2011 By Ryan C. Ebersole

Sanders has sent an open letter to President Obama, and invited the public to sign it, asking the president to protect the middle and working classes from the Republicans' "savage cuts."

5,000 join union-led march against corporate greed

June 15, 2011 By John Wojcik

As the nation's top CEOs held a June 14 summit in Chicago, 5,000 angry demonstrators outside chanted, "You got bailed out, we got sold out!"

Big business greed “holds Illinois hostage”

June 14, 2011 By John Bachtell

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group made $951 million in profits on $3 billion in income in 2010. But that's not enough, they are threatening to move out of Illinois unless they get a tax break.

Ending wars, creating jobs, top mayors’ agenda

June 14, 2011 By Tim Wheeler

More than a dozen mayors are sponsoring a resolution to end the Afghanistan and Iraq wars and use the savings to pay for job-creating programs in the nation's cities.