Media & Internet

"LeRoy offers a parade of damning case studies showing why communities should not woo corporations with subsidies."
---Publishers Weekly

It's an all-too-familiar story: a large company i...

During the last two decades of the 20th century, societies around the world have made a bet on free markets and the corporation. The communist nations of Eastern Europe dismantled their state-controlled economies. China integrated private ownership into its industries...

SAN FRANCISCO - "Economic hit men," John Perkins writes in his controversial new book, "are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extorti...

SEATTLE - Capitalizing on a renewed interest in poetry fostered by Hip Hop and Rap music, local Comcast and El Centro de la Raza officials today announced that El Centro has received a $25,000 grant from the Comcast Foundation's Comcast Reading Network to fund a progr...

Mother truly does know best-in this case Working Mother magazine, which voted Pearson Education one of the nation's top 100 companies for working moms. Pearson executives underscored the company's placement in the Top Five for workplace "flexibility," which, they say, provid...

Comcast Cable Communications, Inc. today announced it is launching a series of public service announcements (PSAs) and print materials next week to promote computer literacy in the nation's communities of color.

The PSA campaign is the f...