General Electric pays no tax on over $6 billion in earnings for 2010. Don't be surprised, it's been that way for a long, long time. So, who pays most the taxes to support our government functions?

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Mondy offered help for Americans struggling to pay bills and care for their families, appealing to a middle-class he says has been "under assault for a long time."

Raise taxes on the wealthy. Cut spending on the poor and middle class. The battle rages on.

Mitt Romney would like the middle class to vote for him but, looking at his record, this would be a disaster for the middle class and all of America.

As the son of two immigrants, I watched my parents work incredibly hard. But because of good public schools and federal college aid, I was able to go from a kid whose parents didn’t speak much English to working for President Clinton in the White House and serving my country in uniform in the Navy reserve. That ladder of opportunity that is the bedrock of the American middle class is eroding and Washington isn’t doing enough to save it.

We need to revitalize and strengthen America’s unions. In 1945, more than one-third of all Americans were union. Today, just under 12 percent are.

Michael Moore

As the wealth of middle-class consumers hemorrhaged during the Great Recession, so did the retailers that catered to them.

Science teacher Gwen Holmesley’s sixth-grade class at Aprende Middle School is learning what it might be like to be birds during a recent morning session.

NEW YORK - Middle- and working-class Americans signed up for high-speed Internet access in record numbers in the past year, apparently lured by a price war among phone companies.

Director Gore Verbinski is nothing if not versatile. With mostly auspicious results, the one-time TV commercial whiz has dabbled in everything from children's fare (“Mousetrap”) to supernatural horror (“The Ring”) to theme-park-inspired escapism (“Pirates of the Caribbean”). One might call him a student of dialects, a cinematic polyglot.

October 7, 2004

I am constantly amazed by how difficult it is for so many Americans to add two-plus-two and come up with four, and who continue to vote against their own economic self-interest. The facts are out there if they would only take a moment to consider the facts!

The letter to the editor printed Wednesday, June 6 titled “Strong Unions mean strong middle class” is just plain wrong.

When Brady Wald’s son was a student attending Chandler’s Anderson Junior High School, he saw a young, shy boy with marginal grades “burst out of his shell.”

Have they no shame? Republicans are vehemently anti-tax, right? AP journalist Charles Babington reports Republican support for allowing a tax cut to expire. On the rich, you ask? Hardly. On payroll taxes. On the working man.

Jackie Hoffman sifted through a laundry bin filled with aging bread, choosing a loaf of white. Like nearly a third of the first 50 customers to arrive at the Emergency Food Bank of Stockton that morning, Hoffman was new to the pantry.

Mesa’s junior high schools need an upgrade if they want to compete with neighboring districts, school officials told the Mesa Unified School District governing board Tuesday night.

Mesa’s junior high schools need an upgrade if they want to compete with neighboring districts, school officials told the Mesa Unified School District governing board Tuesday night.

Students at Tempe’s Scales Elementary School will move up to middle school a little sooner than they expected — but the move is temporary.

Students at Tempe’s Scales Elementary School will move up to middle school a little sooner than they expected — but the move is temporary.