Budget Battles
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Deficit Owls Say You Shouldn’t Give a Hoot About $1 Trillion Budget Shortfall
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How Congress Cheats with Our Money — and How We Can Stop It
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April Is Financial Literacy Month. Someone Tell Congress.
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When the Budget Won’t Balance, Just Get Rid of the Budget Committee?
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With Recent Laws, Congress Has Added $540 Billion to the 2019 Deficit
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Why Trillion-Dollar Deficits Matter
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Paul Ryan's Fiscal Legacy: Lots of Red Ink
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Why Almost No One Is Happy About This Week's Balanced Budget Amendment Vote
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Yellen, Democratic Economists Say Fixing Debt Crisis Isn’t All About Entitlements
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Congress Was Hoping to Ride the Tax Cuts to the Election, but Trump May Have Other Plans
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Trump Discussed Rolling Back Part of $1.3 Trillion Spending Deal
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The Problem a Balanced Budget Amendment Can’t Fix
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A Surprise Winner in the $1.3 Trillion Spending Bill
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The Spending Deal: $1.3 Trillion, 2,232 Pages, One Messy Process
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7 Big Pentagon Numbers in the $1.3 Trillion Spending Deal
Newsletter
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Trump Administration Wants to Raise the Rent
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson will propose increasing the rent obligation for low-income households receiving federal housing subsidies, as well as creating new work requirements...
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Drop in Opioid Prescriptions Could Be Good News for the Economy
The news last week that the number of opioid prescriptions fell in 2017 for the fifth straight year is good news for the economy, writes economist Michael Pearce of Capital Economics, since it...
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Why the Deficit Outlook Could Be Even Worse Than It Seems
The Congressional Budget Office warned earlier this month that the U.S. will start running $1 trillion deficits in 2020, and that the national debt will be nearly as large as the economy in a decade...
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Critics Slam Trump Administration's Short-Term Health Insurance Proposal
Monday marked the end of the comment period on a proposal by the Department of Health and Human Services to allow short-term health insurance plans to provide coverage for as long as 364 days, up...
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Here's Why You Shouldn't Panic as 10-Year Treasury Yield Tops 3%
Yields on 10-year Treasuries hit the widely watched and psychologically significant 3 percent level Tuesday for the first time since January 2014, continuing a months-long climb that has been driven...
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Is Social Security a ‘Good Investment’?
Social Security is a pay-as-you-go social insurance program, not an investment fund, but Monique Morrissey of the Economic Policy Institute says that its return on contributions is actually quite...
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Bernie Sanders to Propose Plan Guaranteeing a Job for Every American
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is preparing to announce a plan for the federal government to guarantee a job paying $15 an hour and providing health-care benefits to every American “who wants one or...