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Report: Countries Face A 'Great Challenge' Economically For The Foreseeable Future

Posted 12.12.2011 | Business

An OECD report due for release this month will say markets and governments face an uphill struggle to fund themselves next year amid extreme uncer...

Income Inequality Rising In Most Wealthy Countries: Study

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 12.05.2011 | Business

Scales continue to tip in the rich's favor the world around. Income inequality -- the gap between a society's richest members and its poorest -- i...

Germany, France Push For Power To Reject Eurozone Budgets

Posted 11.28.2011 | Business

Germany and France stepped up a drive on Monday for intrusive powers to reject national budgets in the euro zone that breach EU rules, as a market...

Does the U.S. Have the World's Best Health Care System? Yes, If You're Talking About the Third World

Wendell Potter | Posted 11.28.2011 | Politics

Wendell Potter

Americans are not getting nearly as much bang for the health care buck as citizens of most other developed countries -- and even some countries in the developing world.

OECD: Policy Makers Should Be Prepared To 'Face The Worst' From Debt Crisis

AP | Posted 11.28.2011 | Business

PARIS — The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Monday policy makers around the world must "be prepared to face the worst...

Conservatism Blew Up the Economy

Cliff Schecter | Posted 01.14.2012 | Politics

Cliff Schecter

So what do you do when financial analysts are warning that housing prices are headed for a "triple dip," the second largest Swiss Bank (Credit Suisse)...

OECD: All Major Economies Headed For Slowdowns

Posted 11.14.2011 | Business

None of the world's major economies will escape a slowdown, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development said on Monday, highlightin...

Perry's Gaffe Represents Poor Texan and U.S. Educational Performance; Civics Lesson Needed

Michael Shank | Posted 01.11.2012 | Education

Michael Shank

Without a strong American commitment to a quality education, it is no surprise that Rick Perry, a son of this education system, cannot recall government agencies.

OECD: Europe Headed Toward Sharp Economic Slowdown

Posted 12.31.2011 | Business

The euro area is headed toward a sharp economic slowdown in 2012, with some countries set for negative growth, and failure to restore confidence i...

Dan Froomkin

New Social Justice Index Places U.S. Near Bottom

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 12.27.2011 | Business

WASHINGTON -- A central concern for those in the Occupy movement -- that the economic system in the U.S. is rigged in favor of the well-off -- has bee...

Tax Evasion Campaign Yields Billions In Offshore Assets

Posted 12.25.2011 | Business

An international drive against offshore tax havens has reaped nearly 14 billion euros from would-be tax evaders, the Organization for Economic Coo...

In Global Education Race, U.S. Is Falling Behind

Justin Snider | Posted 12.17.2011 | Education

Justin Snider

For America to avert catastrophe and regain both its educational edge and economic dominance, how -- and how urgently -- must must U.S. higher education change?

Which Country Is The Happiest In The World?

Posted 10.14.2011 | World

What makes people happy? That's the question the Organisation for Economic Cooperation And Development tries to answer in its latest report, How's Lif...

OECD Figures Indicate Economy's Future Continues To Darken

Posted 12.10.2011 | Business

(Vicky Buffery) - The outlook for the world's major economies is continuing to darken according to the latest data from the OECD published on Mond...

How Banks Cause World Hunger [GRAPHIC]

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.14.2011 | Business

Banks are among some of the most hated companies in America, largely for their role in causing a global financial crisis. That reputation could only g...

The Long-Term Consequences Of A Slow Global Economy

The Economist | Editors | Posted 11.11.2011 | Business

A little geographical imagination helps to convey the scale of joblessness in the West. If the 44m people who are unemployed in the mainly rich member...

'We Are Witnessing A Growth Slowdown Across OECD Countries'

Posted 11.08.2011 | Business

(Leigh Thomas) - The outlook for economic growth in developed countries has got much worse in the last three months, the OECD said on Thursday and...

GRAPHIC: Which Countries Work The Longest Days?

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.01.2011 | Business

It's well known that Americans put in long hours at the office. But now, thanks to an infographic from tribeHR using data from the OECD, we can compar...

Teacher Pay: U.S. Ranks 22nd Out Of 27 Countries

Jack Jennings | Posted 10.30.2011 | Education

Jack Jennings

If teachers are so important, why don't our schools attract and keep the best teachers? A major reason is that we aren't willing to pay excellent teachers what they deserve.

Joy Resmovits

75 Trillion Reasons Why U.S. Math Proficiency Matters

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 10.17.2011 | Education

U.S. students rank poorly in proficiency on both domestic and international math exams, a problem that could cost the country $75 trillion over 80 yea...

Israel's Arab Spring?

Joel Rubin | Posted 10.11.2011 | World

Joel Rubin

Just as the current Israeli protests are being made against an ostensibly solid government, this can change overnight. We've learned this from the Arab Spring. What seems to be a solid government one day can turn to mush the next.

What Conflict Minerals Legislation Is Actually Accomplishing in Congo

Sasha Lezhnev | Posted 10.09.2011 | Impact

Sasha Lezhnev

Ending the world's deadliest conflict is no easy task, but a growing consensus of Congolese civil society, electronics and metals companies, investors, and governments are now taking action to do so.

OPEC: Worldwide Oil Demand Will Continue To Grow

AP | Posted 10.09.2011 | Business

VIENNA -- World demand for oil will grow this year and next despite signs that the tepid international economic recovery is running out steam, OPEC sa...

U.S. Legal Immigration Slowed Dramatically During Recession: OECD

The Huffington Post | James Sunshine | Posted 09.13.2011 | Business

Legal immigration to the U.S. has slowed considerably since the Great Recession began, according to a newly released report by the Paris-based Organiz...

Bacon Becomes The Latest Victim Of Skyrocketing U.S. Food Prices

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 09.04.2011 | Business

Spiking food prices could mean that even some of the employed soon won't be able to bring home the bacon. The price of pork bellies, that part of t...