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For decades, labor market data has shown a difficult truth: Our economy has never worked for everyone—especially Black women. 

Statistics from NCES reveal how financial instability during college can be prolonged after leaving, as borrowing compounds with higher rates of unemployment and underemployment, and lower pay.

A growing number of voices are advocating closer collaboration between business, labor, and government -- as well as nonprofit groups -- to grow the U.S. economy. 

A week after the White House released its jobs bill, Paul Ryan took Fox News to say this:

The Montana case highlights the barriers that renewable energy production faces.

We famously live an age of capital, where those who own businesses or other assets are prospering, while most people who rely on the value of their labor are doing terribly. 

New Yorkers shut out of a job by employment credit checks spoke out and told their stories, expressing hope that New York City would build on its recent success banning discrimination against the unemployed in hiring to also put an end to credit discrimination. 

Another month of weak job growth seems especially cruel after the greater-than-expected employment gains in February. But workers were already onto the trend, leaving the labor market in droves throughout March despite the anomaly of a statistical surge in hiring the month before.

Thanks to the new paid sick leave law just passed in New York City, Urban Outfitters will have to offer five days of paid sick time to its New York employees, including part-time ones, starting in spring 2014. 

While nobody wants to admit it, the truth is that we should be talking about how to increase Social Security benefits in coming years, not decrease them. 

Unfortunately, it looks like taxpayers will pay for the cleanup for a reason that we should be very concerned about as discussion continues over the Keystone pipeline.

It seems clear that consumers are still tapped out, with their incomes flat for years, and many of the new jobs being created lately are low-wage positions that don't leave people with much spending money. 

Thoughts and prayers aren’t enough. We need accountability and action to stop the dissemination and spread of white supremacist rhetoric.