With skin the color of a nuclear sunset, President-elect Donald Trump—currently at his vacation home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida—is congratulating himself on creating 5,000 domestic jobs before he’s even been sworn into office. Too bad that this, like 95% of his statements, is a lie.
On Monday, Mary Jo White, chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, announced that she will resign before president-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated.
While Labor Day is traditionally an excellent time to eat 15 hot dogs, try to swim in a lake, then cry because your cramps are too intense, it’s also a fine day to consider who’s revitalizing the American labor movement. Women, particularly black women, now make up the majority of newly organized workers and are…
You know what's not a very nice thing, according to Hillary Clinton? Gender inequality.
In a bid to return the retailer back to profitability, JC Penney announced that it will cut as many as 2,000 jobs and close 33 under performing stores.
Nobody wants to talk to the jobs report that was released yesterday, so it's going to spend the entire weekend sitting alone in the cafeteria, glancing around nervously at the small groups of popular economists whispering behind its back about how crappy it is. Poor jobs report! It's not like it contained news of…
When creating a list of cities in which you would someday like to live, Fresno, Calif. may not make your top ten; actually it may not even break your top 20. You may have never even heard of it. I've lived in California almost all of my life (shoutout to Moldova, though) and I didn't hear about Fresno until I was in…
All the single ladies better hurry up and put a ring on it, because Gallup researchers are reporting that what the economy needs is more marriages. They found more than 130,000 people and found that married people throw their money around town like they're doomsday preppers at Costco.
The rapidly unravelling American middle class has been super hard on big corporations. Who is going to buy their middle-of-the-road household products now that Americans are either mega wealthy or living in penury [in a van] [down by the river]? Nobody, that’s who, which means that corporations need to come up with…
Even though we’ve been hearing about the retirement fund-sapping tendencies of millennial twenty-somethings since the housing market bottomed out like a Camaro doing sixty over a school-zone speed bump, a recently-released study from the Pew Research Center suggests that, even in the post-recession zombie economy,…
Lawrence "Larry" Summers is the front-runner to succeed Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve when he steps down in January, even though Janet Yellen is more qualified — and doesn't think women are bad at math because they have puny ladybrains and selfishly choose to stay home and raise children. Why?…
Inside Kate Middleton lurks one of the most powerful beings on Earth. Experts are saying that when the royal baby is born — early next month, if reports are to be believed — the British economy will experience a very sizable boost.
The economy still sucks, and we know this largely because, at the rate information technology is developing, we should be on Playstation 11 right now and we’re only on 3 because no one can afford to pour extra money into video games. Especially when their (caution: harsh transition ahead) pets are going hungry.
Women can drive. I mean, of course women can drive. Anyone with the required faculties can drive, and the only possible reason a government can have for divesting women of the basic human right Henry Ford gave people to own a Model T and idle away hours of their lives in rush hour traffic is to limit their means of…
Remember how the creative class of writers, artists, urban cheesemongers, professional tricyclists, novelty button manufacturers, food truckers, and artisan mustache-growers was supposed to supplant crumbling blue collar industries in economically stagnant cities? Remember? Well, according to Richard Florida, the…
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren asked bank regulators at her first Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing today a pretty obvious question: When was the last time you took a Wall Street bank to trial?
What's the difference between being broke and poor? Nona Willis Aronowitz breaks it down for us in The Nation, using Girls's Hannah and Shameless's Fiona as examples: both women work in the service industry, but the former is indignant while the other is resigned. The most fascinating part of her piece is the…
Personally, when I'm feeling flush, I splurge on overpriced gourmet salt, which is probably only indicative of how much of a sucker I am for packaging and sodium. But, according to Quartz, we can actually learn something about global economic development by looking at how many people can afford puppies:
Despite growing conservatism, more Pakistani women are working and studying alongside their male peers, prompting a name-brand shopping boom in the process.
Stop me if you've heard this one. The War on Women, as the GOP line goes, is a myth drummed by the liberal media to distract from important economic issues. Issues like jobs, the economy, and building a giant fucking oil pipe across the middle of the country. A real President would focus on things that matter to real…
