Wal-Mart's message to America is "Save money. Live better." Its motto in Washington might best be summed up another way: Spend more. Lobby harder. ...more

December 27, 2007

Presidential candidate John Edwards on Saturday said the country can't simply wait for the economy to turn around, and he wants Congress to come up with as much as $100 billion to prepare for a potential economic slowdown. ...more

December 23, 2007

Lately, Sen. Barack Obama has been saying that major action is needed to avert what he keeps calling a "crisis" in Social Security. Progressives who fought hard and successfully against the Bush administration's attempt to panic America into privatizing the New Deal's crown jewel are outraged, and rightly so. ...more

November 20, 2007

not simply a lifestyle choice. ...more

November 15, 2007

Last month, the American Institute for Cancer Research unveiled the most detailed report ever produced on how healthy diets can prevent cancer. ...more

November 13, 2007

ORLANDO As expected, arguments about conservative credentials created the most fireworks in a debate among Republican presidential primary candidates Sunday night, but disagreements about education, health care and entitlement programs generated the most substance. ...more

October 22, 2007

There was some dissent and a lot of questions, but in the end, local United Auto Workers leaders voted to recommend approval of a new four-year contract with Chrysler LLC that is similar to one ratified last week with General Motors Corp. ...more

October 16, 2007

Its years as the nation's largest employer a distant memory, General Motors may still be setting the trend for corporate-worker relations in shedding its obligation for the health care of 340,000 retirees. ...more

October 16, 2007

The United Auto Workers union reached a tentative four-year contract with Chrysler on Wednesday, hours after going on strike and the same day General Motors workers ratified a separate four-year pact. ...more

October 11, 2007

Local union leaders on Friday endorsed a tentative agreement between General Motors and the United Auto Workers that requires GM to pay at least $35 billion for retiree health care and offers an unprecedented number of promises for future work at U.S. plants, according to a summary of the agreement provided by the UAW. ...more

September 29, 2007