A report out of the Employment Policies Institute finds that only one in five members of Congress has an academic background in business or economics. ...

As Congress works on one of the most important pieces of economic legislation in a generation, a Washington research group has pointed out that more than 8 in 10 members of Congress don't have a ...

A new analysis shows that two thirds of new U.S.-born PhDs in economics have parents with graduate degrees, up from around 20 percent a few decades ago.

The vast majority of members lack an academic background in business or economics, according to a study by the Employment Policies Institute, a nonprofit group that takes a conservative stand on ...

On the 2012 ballot for Mason County Board will be something of a rarity for the county’s voters: a Republican challenger for a District 2 seat. Hugh McHarry, 61, who lives just outside of Havan… ...

But when she chanced upon an economics course during her engineering studies, she realized that economics was where her interests lay. Originally from Iran, Kazemi graduated from Simon Fraser ...

Portugal re-elected Aníbal Cavaco Silva as president, leaving the nation's reins in the hands of an economist scholar who has pledged to use his second five-year term to help steer his country ...