EPA Issues Sweeping Rules Protecting America's Drinking Water, Streams and Wetlands

Drinking water for 117 million Americans will be protected under new rules shielding small streams, tributaries and wetlands from pollution and development.

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Anti-Corruption Activists Join Occupy.com In Seattle June 4th - Calling for Citizen Empowerment

On June 4, two of the nation’s leading voices against political corruption, Lawrence Lessig and Marianne Williamson, will join Occupy.com's screening of "Killswitch" in a call for sweeping citizen action to root money out of politics in 2016.

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The Financial Transactions Tax Could Be a Game Changer on Wall Street

The FTT proposed last week by presidential candidate Bernie Sanders would impose a sales tax on stocks and other financial assets, forcing speculators to pay a tax on their trades just like people who buy shoes or clothes.

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Anti-Poverty Activist Becomes Barcelona Mayor As Indignados Surge to Power

Spain’s 15-M Movement made the move from city squares to the halls of power on Sunday in municipal and regional elections that saw the ruling People’s party battered at the ballot box.

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As L.A. Joins $15 Movement, A Fascinating Minimum Wage Experiment Is About to Unfold

Some of the biggest cities in America are now defying decades of economic orthodoxy and challenging social norms that regarded low-wage jobs as unavoidable and acceptable.

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We Need a New Economic System

It's time to begin the careful work of knitting together broad, pluralistic conceptions of what a transformed system might look like.

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Solutions Movement: How Worker-Owned Co-ops Can Change the Way We Work

New York City is home to the country’s largest worker-owned co-op, Co-operative Home Care Associates, which employs some 2,300 workers, mainly immigrant and minority women in the South Bronx.

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Broad Coalition of Nurses, Students, Labor, Environmentalists Support Robin Hood Tax

There is widespread support for Sen. Bernie Sanders's proposals, introduced Tuesday in Congress, to use a Robin Hood tax on stock transactions to fund tuition at four-year public colleges and universities.

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As San Francisco Wages Rise, Questions Emerge About Enforcement

Getting the minimum wage raised was the easy part. The bigger challenge is ensuring the legislation has teeth.

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Elizabeth Warren Issues Scathing Report On America's – and Obama's – Broken Trade Promises

Warren's report detailed decades of failed trade enforcement by American presidents, including the current one.

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