Michael Bloomberg

With unemployment climbing and available federal dollars declining in 2010, the need for charitable giving seemed greater than ever, but gifts made during the year were actually down. According to a recent article in The Chronicle of Philanthropy, charitable gifts at the top of the spectrum, those...

More than 95% of the workers who took New York City officials and contractors to court over health problems stemming from the 9/11 rescue and recovery operations at the World Trade Center site approved a settlement worth at least $625 million, the New York Times reported, citing attorneys involved in the process.

By Minyanville.com Meet ten wealthy people whose causes have caused controversy. Among the richest of the rich, the smallest misdeeds can have amplified consequences. Here, Minyanville looks at the charges against 10 powerful billionaires. Some of their past (in some cases, current) actions...

Banning soda for food stamp users is a good idea. And I write as someone who has not once, but twice, been on food stamps myself. I write about food stamps, or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), enough to know the usual rhetorical arguments used by the various concerned groups....

By Luisa Kroll, Forbes.com The Forbes 400 richest Americans regained lost ground in 2010, while most were still smarting from the recession. The total worth of the Forbes 400 was up 8% to $1.37 trillion, well out-earning the 1% rise in the S&P 500 index over the same period of time. More...

Here's news from the business world and other money matters to watch out for Thursday (last updated at 7:20 a.m. Eastern time): Billionaires To Donate Fortunes: The Sage of Omaha, Warren Buffett, said Wednesday he and 39 other of America's wealthiest people have agreed to donate a bulk of their...

Famed investor Warren Buffett announced that 40 billionaires have committed to donate at least 50% of their fortunes to charity as part of the Giving Pledge, a project that targets America's richest to pledge to donate their wealth.

In a city with 24,000 restaurants -- one of them, featured in a popular YouTube clip, a Taco Bell infested with rats -- it's high time a transparent restaurant-cleanliness ratings system was put in place. Will the rest of the U.S. take its lead?

New York City's beloved half-price TKTS ticket booth, a kiosk in the middle of Times Square which sells same-day tickets to Broadway and off-Broadway performances, is finally back in service after two and a half years of languishing through construction delays, ghastly cost overruns, and a...