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The roots of economic justice

October 30, 2014 By Rev. Jim Conn

Minimum wages should provide enough income for working families to put shelter over their heads, food on their tables and clothes on their backs.

Fed’s Yellen hits income inequality

October 27, 2014 By Mark Gruenberg

Even the head of the Fed now worries about the chasm of income inequality. But Janet Yellen, in a speech at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, took it one step beyond money.

This is what I see when I drive

October 6, 2014 By Steve Kloppenburg

As I drive along, I notice the landscape is ever changing. Walmarts and dollar stores sprout from empty lots.

Economic spin doctors

September 11, 2014 By John Case

It's easy to feel you are being pressured against your instinct to accept a miserable marriage when listening to many economics pundits trying to be "upbeat" about the economy.

British party leaders scramble to Scotland to quell Yes vote

September 11, 2014 By Morning Star

Britain's three main party political leaders - among the most unpopular in British political history - crawled up to Scotland to beg that it votes against independence.