Fortune 500 Companies Made Record $824 Billion Profit In 2011
Poverty is rampant. Hunger is widespread. But don't worry about America's largest corporations -- they're doing just fine. Fortune released its ann...
Poverty is rampant. Hunger is widespread. But don't worry about America's largest corporations -- they're doing just fine. Fortune released its ann...
HuffingtonPost.com | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 05.05.2012
It's a good time to be an American corporate executive, but not such a great time to be a job seeker. That's because U.S. corporate profits have r...
The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 05.01.2012
Workers are getting more flexibility from their employers, but that doesn't necessarily mean their lives are getting any easier. Companies are le...
The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 04.16.2012
More workers are fighting back against their employers. Workers filed 32 percent more lawsuits against their employers for unpaid overtime last ye...
Harvey Rosenfield | Posted 04.13.2012
It's a magnificent time to be alive -- if you're a giant corporation, that is. Spring is here, and after a deep chill, the mighty mega-businesses are not merely reborn, but blossoming.
The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 04.12.2012
Some industries just may not have what it takes to survive today's changing economic climate. Technological advances, offshore manufacturing and s...
The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 04.09.2012
Instead of giving money to the government, it turns out more than a few U.S. companies are actually making money off their income taxes. In a recen...
The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 04.09.2012
Major corporations are making certain they get their money's worth out of each individual employee. S&P 500 companies made an average $420,000 in ...
The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 04.09.2012
Though you cannot roll each one of them up and smoke them, you still need to know seven and a half things each day, and here they are: Thing One: S...
Bernard Starr | Posted 04.06.2012
American business has eliminated untold numbers of other middle class jobs. That's why the employment and housing markets are struggling, food stamp use is at an all-time high and the ranks of the working poor are swelling, while corporate profits soar.
Jim Worth | Posted 05.30.2012
The Hagan/McCain legislation falls short of its potential and should be rejected and replaced by a fairer, more equitable bill that truly begins to rebalance this country.
Harlan Green | Posted 05.21.2012
Raising corporate taxes -- or closing all the loopholes -- is a first step if we want to create a sustainable recovery, rather than more busted bubbles.
Mary Ellen Biery | Posted 05.20.2012
If sales volumes aren't improving or are volatile, business owners can still grow profits. Here are three ways to generate more bang for the bucks your business brings in.
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 04.17.2012
The promise was displayed prominently at the top of the "economy" section of Obama's campaign website. However, the language regarding the windfall profits tax vanished in an unceremonious and abrupt manner.
The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 02.03.2012
As a percentage of ever-growing profits, corporations are paying less in taxes than they have in decades. Thanks in part to federal tax breaks, cor...
HuffingtonPost.com | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 02.01.2012
A new report out Tuesday shows that working Americans made less money last year, as real wages fell about two percent in 2011, when accounting for inf...
David Morris | Posted 03.28.2012
Recent comments by Mitt Romney, still the probable Republican nominee for president, all but guarantee the inequality issue will remain front and center this election year.
John Friedman | Posted 03.27.2012
Wanting a better life for one's self and one's significant others is the strength behind capitalism. The quick-buck-and-the-heck-with-the-consequences attitude that became so vogue in the dot.com era was not and is not typical. For most of the history of capitalism 'built to last' was the norm.
Harlan Green | Posted 03.06.2012
What we need to do instead is embark on a massive investment program -- as we did, virtually by accident, 80 years ago -- that will increase our productivity for years to come, and will also increase employment now.
The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 01.23.2012
Whether you work for the government or the private sector, it's likely your salary didn't go up much in 2011, but federal workers saw their wages grow...
Harlan Green | Posted 01.02.2012
It isn't consumer debt, as much as the lack of income that has prevented consumers from spending enough to boost economic growth.
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 12.28.2011
One solution being proposed by some of our Congressional leaders is a rehash of an old experiment: a repatriation tax holiday that would temporarily allow U.S.-based companies to bring home profits they currently hold overseas.
Mitchell Bard | Posted 12.25.2011
Give Rick Perry credit for his honesty. He just articulated out loud what is the accepted dogma of the modern Tea Party-owned Republican party, completely dedicated to protecting the wealthy and corporations on the backs of the (rapidly shrinking) middle class.
The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 12.17.2011
You need to spend money to make money, as the saying goes. It's an idea lobbyists might find particularly resonant: Companies that spend money on appe...
AP | By MICHELLE CONLIN | Posted 11.22.2011
-- In America, it's starting to feel as if there are two housing markets. One for the rich and one for everyone else. Consider foreclosure-ravaged D...
The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 05.08.2012