Ambitious ladies listen up: If you’d like to stay that way, never have a kid and if you do decide to have a baby, under no circumstances let that wailing thing near your bosom.

Those are the words of wisdom Paul Tudor Jones, a super-rich hedge funder, offered

Immigration is one step closer to becoming a reality after a Senate panel approved the bipartisan "gang of eight" immigration bill on Tuesday. But critics are still standing in the way, arguing comprehensive immigration reform would cost too much or amount to amnesty for undocumented immigrants.

Here are...

When Apple CEO Tim Cook appeared before a panel of Senators Tuesday, much of the questioning centered around why so much of the company’s money sits untaxed overseas. Cook defended the practice, saying his company doesn’t “depend on gimmicks” to lower its tax rate. But a...

Rand Paul believes America owes Apple an apology.

“I’m offended by a government that convenes a hearing to bully one of America’s greatest success stories,” Sen. Paul (R-Ky) said during a Senate committee hearing convened to discuss Apple’s tax practices Tuesday. Apple’s CEO Tim Cook is slated to testify...

In every U.S. state, Americans are struggling to get by in large part because their state governments aren’t doing enough to ensure they have a livable wage or the benefits necessary to make life affordable, according to the Economic Security Scorecard, a report released Tuesday by the nonprofit...

America has a youth unemployment problem, and it’s not just the kids who are suffering.

The nation is poised to lose $18 billion in wages over the next decade due to high youth unemployment, according to a Bloomberg Brief from Bloomberg Senior Economist Joseph Brusuelas.

Brusuelas estimated that...

The housing market may be recovering, but the country is still suffering.

Americans lost $192.6 billion in wealth, or an average of $1,700 per household, last year due to foreclosures, according to a report released Thursday by the Alliance for a Just Society, a coalition...

Raising taxes on the rich doesn't make them less productive -- except when it comes to avoiding taxes, according to a new paper.

The study, by the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning research organization, finds the politically popular strategy of broadening the tax base while...

Legalizing same-sex marriage can be politically beneficial for lawmakers, considering about half of Americans say they are in support of it. But marriage equality has its economic incentives as well.

Here are 8 ways legalizing same-sex marriage is good for the economy:

It would help curb the...

Angelina Jolie’s revelation that she had a drastic double mastectomy to reduce her risk of breast cancer may inspire other women to have similar surgery, but many who don’t necessarily need the procedure are already opting for it, according to experts.

Todd Tuttle, chief of surgical oncology...

Towards the end of her widely read New York Times op-ed detailing her decision to get a preventative double mastectomy and lower her risk of breast cancer, Angelina Jolie noted something significant: Many American women can't afford to take the genetic test for the breast cancer gene. At...

The number of workers taking their employers to court over unfair pay is skyrocketing.

Wage-and-hour lawsuits shot up 432 percent over the past 20 years, according to an analysis of data from the Federal Judicial Center by the law firm Sayfarth and Shaw. In just the last...

After toiling away at an upstate New York McDonald's for months, Jeffrey Schuyler says he was "hurt" once he discovered his employer was altering time sheets in an alleged attempt to cut his pay.

Schuyler, who said he made $13 per hour working at the Syracuse McDonald’s,

One Obamacare provision targeting employers that offer overly generous insurance could wind up costing Americans with pretty ordinary health plans, a new report finds.

The Affordable Care Act includes a tax on high-cost insurance plans that’s both a funding mechanism for the law and meant to encourage patients...

Lucila Ramirez, 55, has been cleaning the bathrooms and tables at Washington, D.C.’s Union Station for 21 years. Despite her long record of service, Ramirez says she makes only $8.75 per hour, and receives no benefits or sick days.

“I work in a federal building doing work on behalf...

The U.S. could shrink the deficit by 20 percent if current health care spending trends continue, according to a newly released study in the journal Health Affairs.

If spending on health care continues to grow at its current rate, the government would spend $770 billion less than predicted...

On the heels of the recent tragedy in Bangladesh, American Apparel CEO Dov Charney has a message for the rest of the retail industry: It's time for change.

"The apparel industry's relentless and blind pursuit of the lowest possible wages cannot be sustained over time, ethically or...

Warren Buffett reminded all of us last week that Corporate America could do more to advance women in the workplace. Perhaps he should start with his own company.

Berkshire Hathaway, where Buffett is chairman and CEO, ranked dead last among S&P 100 companies in boosting women and minorities,...

One government official has some bad news for Americans and politicians: You can’t protect the middle class from tax increases or benefit cuts if you want to fix the deficit. But part of the problem lies in the definition: Basically everyone considers themselves part of the middle class.

Congressional...

When a factory collapsed in Bangladesh last month, killing hundreds, the workers inside likely weren’t making clothes for Disney.

The company just revealed to The New York Times that it told vendors to pull nearly all of its manufacturing out of the country in March. That month