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Budget Battles

  • Tea Party Says As Debt Rises, So Does Membership

    By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

    Despite media reports that the Tea Party is fading into oblivion, Jenny Beth Martin of the Tea Party Patriots says that the movement is growing – and that the true measure of “success is that we go...

  • Job Growth a Blowout: 243,000 Added

    By Lucia Mutikani, Reuters

    The economy created jobs at the fastest pace in nine months in January and the unemployment rate dropped to a near three-year low of 8.3 percent, indicating last quarter's growth carried into early...

  • Why Most U.S. Manufacturing Jobs Are Gone Forever

    By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

    The president’s wants to bring back manufacturing, but new tax breaks and better-trained workers cannot undo the damage done by decades of neglect of the nation’s industrial sector.

  • The GOP Has Obama's Number: 8.5 Percent

    By Eric Pianin

    Republican Mitt Romney’s latest gaffe in saying he’s “not concerned” about the very poor has provided the Democrats with a big laugh, but are Obama administration political aides gaffe-prone as well...

  • Social Security's One Real Problem

    By Mark Miller, Reuters

    President Obama mentioned Social Security briefly during his State of the Union address last week, but his comments raised more questions than they answered. Its real problem: it's on track to...