More Ontarians are using temp agencies to find work — and these workers are more likely to get hurt on the job. A Toronto Star undercover investigation. By Sara Mojtehedzadeh, Brendan Kennedy. (Sept. 8, 2017)

Forty years ago, on Sept. 19, thousands of men walked into the Campbell Works of Youngstown Sheet and Tube along the Mahoning River before the early shift... By Salena Zito.

The UN Security Council on Monday unanimously imposed new sanctions on North Korea, slapping a ban on textile exports and restricting shipments of oil products to punish Pyongyang for its sixth and largest nuclear test. With backing from China and Russia, the council adopted a US-drafted sanctions resolution...

Detroit is the great American Twilight Zone, where the macabre and the redemptive flow daily in almost equal measure. By Aaron Robertson.

India is likely to overtake Japan and Germany to become the third largest economy in the next 10 years but needs to be consistent in reforms and focus more on the social sector, British brokerage HSBC has said. Social capital is “insufficient” in the country and spending on aspects like health and education “is not just desirable for its [India’s] own sake, but is also central to economic growth and political stability,” it said.

The stories have become all too familiar in Japan, though people often do their best to ignore them. An elderly or middle-aged person, usually a man, is found dead, at home in his apartment, frequently right in his bed. It has been days, weeks, or even months... By Amos Zeeberg.

Can hands-on experience foster more empathetic views towards migrant labor? A sociologist investigates.

Congress is on track for an eye-popping increase in military spending. By Alex Emmons.

Focusing on core competence and outsourcing the rest has made U.S. companies lean, nimble and productive. It has also left lots of people worse off.

It is no accident that our age of hyper-capitalism is also one of aggressive “family values,” pursued in popular culture and legislation alike. By James Chappel.

The Industrial Revolution led to centuries of social and economic upheaval. Are economists telling us not to worry about workplace automation because things will be better in a couple hundred years?

The [Cincinnati, Ohio] Enquirer sent 60 journalists to cover an ordinary week in this extraordinary time. This is what an epidemic looks like.

Yuan-denominated contract will let exporters circumvent US dollar

Longtime contrarian continues to be a fly in the establishment's ointment. By Robert W. Merry.

Lego said it would lay off 8 percent of its staff and revamp its business after reporting its first fall in sales in more than a decade on Tuesday.

A new study suggests always-improving video games are keeping young men without college educations unemployed or out of the workforce entirely. By Stephen Johnson.

Was it even a good idea? By John Lanchester.

Today, nearly 8 billion people live in the world. Each year, 4.5 billion tons of food is produced. Our world's food production has enough capacity to easily feed humanity, even with an overproduction of 50%. In other words, enough food is produced every year to feed 10 billion people. This statistic proves that famine is not the reason behind the wars of the world. No one is attacking or slaughtering others to survive; no one's survival depends on someone else's death.

America is a grumpy and confused place. For an overarching explanation of what has gone wrong, a decline in trust is a good place to start. Trust can be defined as the expectation that other people, or organisations, will act in ways that are fair to you. In the White House and beyond there is precious little of it about. People increasingly view institutions as corrupt, strangers as suspicious, rivals as illegitimate and facts as negotiable.

The potential advantages and drawbacks of universal basic income have been debated fiercely in recent months, but a new study suggests that paying everyone an unconditional salary could have a welcomed side effect. According to US think tank The Roosevelt Institute, a system of universal basic income – or UBI – in the US, under which every citizen is given a basic government salary unconditionally could actually grow the economy on a permanent basis. But there is a catch.

The Zetas and groups like them have morphed into transnational corporations with interests in everything from coal mining and the extraction of oil and gas to cornering the market on avocados. By Melissa del Bosque.

When all job differences are accounted for, the pay gap almost disappears

Quantitative easing, which saw major central banks buying government bonds outright and quadrupling their balance sheets since 2008 to $15 trillion, has boosted asset prices across the board. That was the aim: to counter a severe economic downturn and to save a financial system close to the brink. Little thought, however, was put into the longer-term consequences of these actions.

Equities in Poland have surged. But attractive valuations and strong macroeconomic conditions should keep them rising.

Americans say they love U.S.-made goods. They are less enthusiastic, however, about paying a premium for them.

Ten years after INS raids upended Latinos' lives in small meatpacking towns across the Midwest, the jobs didn't go to native Nebraskans. Most went to the next immigrants – many from Somalia. By Nigel Duara.

The visible and invisible social inequalities in the new China built by migrant workers. By Peter Bengtsen. (June 19, 2017)

In West Virginia, a young woman and a privileged physician lived very different lives. But they shared a crushing addiction. By Chris McGreal.

When employees are treated as short-term assets, they reinvent themselves as marketable goods, always ready to quit. By Ilana Gershon.

While Russiagate rages, the bitter fight over the future of the real estate market continues. By Matt Taibbi.

Could a Trump dynasty in the White House survive for three more elections? Post-electoral stress disorder has generated a hysteria still amply manifest. By Edward Luttwak.

A 28-year-old law student takes on the “Everything Store” by questioning whether antitrust law is ready to deal with a winner-take-all economy

Canada's economy grew by 0.6 per cent in May, the seventh straight monthly gain. The overall economy has grown by 4.6 per cent in the 12 months leading up to the end of May, Statistics Canada said. That's the biggest 12-month figure since 2000. The strong showing blew past what economists were expecting, which was modest growth of 0.2 per cent for the month.

Holiday apartment platform Airbnb is being over-run by firms with massive turnovers, new research in Germany suggests. More and more cities are bringing in legislation to counter the problem.

A wealth of research shows that the economy is lifted by foreign workers, providing new opportunities for the native-born.