It is getting harder to find a job that can support a middle-class lifestyle.

That's because the recession and the subsequent recovery have been particularly harsh on the middle-class jobs, which, by our definition, have a mean wage of more than $26,588 per year, the median income for...

Recent college graduates trying to make it on their own have truly been living through a lost decade.

Young college graduates are making less money than they made in 2000, according to a new analysis by the Economic Policy Institute. Those working full-time for the entire year made...

It's no secret that Obamacare, otherwise known as the 2010 Affordable Care Act, has inspired fear among many of the most vocal business leaders.

That alarm is largely based on a couple of new rules set to go into effect next year -- chief among them that

Many big companies are complaining about their tax bills again, but some of them appear to not be paying all that much to begin with.

The top leaders of 19 companies, along with two trade groups, signed a letter sent to Congressional leaders on Monday claiming that the...

America's most common job just doesn't pay very well.

Roughly 4.3 million Americans worked as retail salespeople as of last May, according to data released by the Labor Department Friday. On average, those working the country's most common job make just $25,310 per year, far less...

Popeyes, a popular fast food chain, expects some of its employees to voluntarily cut their own hours in order to try to sidestep a fee under the Affordable Care Act, but doing so would not let workers avoid that cost.

The health care law, known as Obamacare, will require Americans...

Meet Mike Duke, king of the CEO-to-worker pay ratio.

The Walmart CEO gets paid 1,034 times more than the median Walmart worker, according to a new analysis by PayScale, a salary information website.

Duke, who raked in $23.15 million last year,...

Popeyes and Wendy's aren't too worried about Obamacare's impact on their bottom lines, but the reason for their calm may rest on a faulty assumption.

The two fast food chains expect a significant number of their employees to pay Obamacare's penalty rather than enroll in the company-sponsored plans mandated by...

Republican governors' decision to reject expanding Medicaid under Obamacare isn't just a political loss for President Barack Obama. It also will make it harder for hundreds of thousands of uninsured veterans to access health insurance.

In total, 284,000 poor uninsured veterans who would have qualified for Medicaid under...

The ad agency responsible for the Ford ad mock-ups that caused an uproar last week has fired some of the employees involved.

The website Ads of the World reportedly posted several Ford ad mock-ups online last week, including one depicting former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi with three...

Paul Krugman says Cyprus needs the abandon the euro immediately in order to save its economy.

"Cyprus should leave the euro. Now," the Nobel Prize-winning economist wrote in a blog post on Tuesday.

The New York Times columnist wrote that starting a new, cheaper currency would allow Cyprus'...

If there's been one positive result of the largest U.S. bank grappling with $6.2 billion in trading losses, perhaps it's everyone else learning how little we truly know about these massive institutions.

Matt Taibbi recently told Sam Seder's Majority Report that a Senate committee's recent...

The payroll tax hike may not be derailing the economic recovery after all.

Forty-eight percent of Americans did not even notice the Jan. 1 payroll tax hike, according to a survey released Monday by Bankrate, a personal finance website. Another 7 percent of Americans said that the tax...

Most companies plan to create policies in line with an Obamacare provision that will let companies charge employees more in penalties if they don't participate in company wellness programs, a new study has found.

Altogether, 58 percent of companies "plan to impose consequences" on employees...

Being a banker just isn't quite as good as it used to be.

The gap between what bank employees make and what other private-sector workers earn is getting smaller, according to new research by the consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) for the Financial Times. According to the research, bankers...

If the American people had their way, big banks may not stay so big much longer.

According to a new poll by Rasmussen Reports, 50 percent of Americans want the government to break up the country's big banks. Only 23 percent of Americans oppose breaking up big banks,...

The old adage that any publicity is good publicity may not quite hold true for Ikea.

According to a new analysis, the furniture maker has seen its reputation take a serious hit since recalling Swedish meatballs and wiener sausages from most of its European...

If you're poor, you have a smaller chance of getting rich now than in the 1980s, a new study suggests.

The study, released Thursday by the Brookings Institution, found that the spike in U.S. income inequality between 1987 and 2009 was mostly due to long-lasting changes in household...

Paul Krugman says that Republican ideology is holding the economy back.

"People of conservative politics hate hate hate the idea of any kind of activist government policy to help the economy," the Nobel Prize-winning economist wrote in a blog post for the New York Times on Wednesday.

Krugman,...

The public largely blames Congressional Republicans for recent automatic spending cuts, which are projected to slow the economy and eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs. But Peter Orszag, a former budget director under President Barack Obama, says that Democratic politicians deserve some of that...