(A recent study by ProPublica and the Urban Institute found that 56 percent of older workers suffer at least one layoff or other type of involuntary job separation between turning 50 and retirement.

As the shale gas boom sweeps across the United States, drillers are turning to a controversial legal tool called forced pooling to gain access to minerals beneath private property–in many cases, ...

Rubie Marie, from the West Midlands, was 15 when she was forced to marry a man who was twice her age Survivors of forced marriage fear cases will remain underground, despite a new minimum-age law ...

Forced labour is all around us, but not how you think. This report pulls together research from across the world to explain where it comes from and what we can do about it. The two most commonly given ...

A girl works at a brick kiln at Liuwu Village in Yuncheng in China’s Shanxi province in this June 15, 2007 file photo. Credit: AP Photo/Color China Photo, FIle Subscribe for ads-free reading In China, ...

Alexandra Minna Stern receives funding from the National Institutes of Health-National Humane Genome Research Institute for portions of this research project. In August 1964, the North Carolina ...