It’s not that women aren’t capable, the billionaire investor said in April at a University of Virginia panel discussion in front of students, “they are very capable,” but babies are a “killer” to a trader’s focus. Read More

First lady Michelle Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also made the Forbes list, which is comprised of 100 women from around the world. Read More

The amount of money CEOs make has never been higher. The Associated Press did an analysis of data from Equilar, an executive pay research firm.

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You’ve likely heard a lot about the one percent—in the first year of the recovery, they captured 93% of the income gains—but the story of America’s corporations is even more troubling. Read More

Apple Inc came under fire on Tuesday at a Senate hearing over an investigation that alleged the U.S. high technology icon has kept billions of dollars in profits in Irish subsidiaries and paid little or no taxes to any government. Read More

Labor is brandishing research that says the scarcity of workers is a myth while the tech industry is pointing to other studies that say the shortage is very real and is a threat to U.S. competitiveness. Read More

The demand of Jim DeMint’s Heritage Foundation — or, more accurately, its political arm Heritage Action — that Congress focus exclusively on the IRS scandal to the exclusion of all else hides two personal vendettas. Read More

More than a dozen European brands have joined a factory safety pact, but a Who's Who of American companies has declined. Here's why. Read More

Investigators concluded their scene excavation of the area damaged by last month's fertilizer plant explosion West, Texas. However, the broader investigation continues. Read More

Women may be moving up the corporate ladder, but new data from Bloomberg shows that the glass ceiling of compensation is hard to break - even at the country's top trade groups. Read More

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is looking into a new report alleging that as many as 84% of New York fast food workers experience wage theft. Read More

On Tuesday's Very Last Word, MSNBC's Ari Melber explained the difference between top-down and bottom-up political scandals, and how Richard Nixon was the progenitor of the top-down kind. Also, Joy Reid talked about how two military officials tasked with overseeing sexual assault cases could commit assaults themselves. Read More

The nationwide wave of fast food strikes appears to be gradually coalescing into a national push for a higher minimum wage. Read More

Documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney will join the NOW panel Wednesday to discuss his latest film, "We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks." Read More

America needs a two-pronged approach to poverty: Improve Americans’ skills through better elementary and secondary schools, and encourage firms to hire. It’s unfortunate that we’re doing a terrible job on both fronts. Read More

Mothers sacrifice themselves for their children to ensure they have the best chance. But despite their sacrifices, mothers who are raising 20% of the U.S. children living in poverty are ignored. Their needs are judged, and their voices, silenced. Read More

An EMS paramedic who responded to the blast has been arrested for possession of a pipe bomb, but authorities would not comment on whether that was connected to their investigation. Read More

Detroit—a city under emergency management in a state that has recently adopted harsh right-to-work laws—on Friday joined the wave of cities across the nation to see fast food workers on strike for the right to form a union and receive a higher base pay. Read More

A woman was pulled from the rubble of a Bangladesh garment factory on Friday, more than two weeks after it collapsed. Read More