Budget

How to Avoid the Austerity Trap But Still Deal With the Budget Deficit

Robert Reich | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: European Debt Crisis, Eurozone, Budget Deficit, Europe, Federal Budget Deficit, Budget Cuts, Budget, Austerity, Debt Ceiling, Politics News
Robert Reich

Here is a way for us to avoid the austerity trap that Europe has fallen into. And we get on with the long-term job of taming the budget deficit when the economy is healthy enough to do so.

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The GOP's War on Children

Bruce Kluger | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Fundamentalism, Gop, Dog on the Roof!, Children, Obamacare, Conservatism, Obama, Children?S Health Insurance Program, Politics, 2012 Presidential Election, Colleen Clapp, Bruce Kluger, Women, Rush Limbaugh, Budget, Bullying, Mitt Romney, Medicaid, Mormonism, Parenting, Pell Grants, War on Terror, Education, Michele Bachmann, Wall Street, Rolling Stone, On the Road With Mitt and the Mutt, Head Start, Paul Ryan, Republicans, Gays, Utah, David Slavin, Jack Denton Reese, Politics News
Bruce Kluger

As in most presidential election years, noisy battles have been raging as the nation's political armies gear up for what promises to be an even nois...

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One Million Should Not Become the New $250K!

Jared Bernstein | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Taxes, John Boehner, Budget, Middle Class, Nancy Pelosi, Bush Tax Cuts, Politics News
Jared Bernstein

Nancy Pelosi just moved the $250K tax threshold up to $1 million. That is, she wrote: "Democrats believe that tax cuts for those earning over a million dollars a year should expire..." That is a very big, very bad deal.

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5 Costs to Consider Before Getting a Pet

Women & Co | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Budgeting, Veternarians, Pet Insurance, Cats, Pets, Money, Budget, Emergencies, Family Budgeting, Pet-Insurance, Personal Budgeting, Dogs, Women News
Women & Co

Consider this list if you are thinking of buying a pet.

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Follow the Defense Dollars -- If You Can

Joe Newman | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Pentagon, House of Representatives, White House, Deficit, Senate, Congress, Military, Federal Budget Deficit, Plutonium, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Budget, Ndaa, Transparency, Accountability, Politics News
Joe Newman

What happens when Congress does the public's business in secret? The well-connected corporate lobbyists, fundraisers and campaign contributors are the ones who benefit the most because of their insider access.

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How to Photograph Food Without a Fancy Camera

Small Kitchen College | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Photos, Photography, How To, Food, Cameras, Food Photography, Budget, How-to Photography, Food Porn, Food Blogging, Food Blogs, Good Bloggers, Taking Pictures of Food, Photography Tips, Blogging, Food News
Small Kitchen College

You can literally end up writing a book about the food, but it's the pictures that are truly worth a thousand words. It's the best way to capture the experience of making and enjoying the final product.

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Three Things You Must Have In Retirement

Martha Nelson | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Lifestyle, Baby Boomers Retirement, Budget, Finances, Retirement, Choices, Slideexpand, Aging in Place, Parenting post50, Senior Health, Health and Aging, Health Post50, Health After 50, Fifty News
Martha Nelson

Underlying our retirement search is the golden trinity we have to consider: our health, our desired lifestyle, and our budget. This trio is symbiotic and if one goes awry, it becomes a poison pill for the other two.

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Why I Stopped Clothes Shopping for 6 Months

LearnVest | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Budgeting, DIY Sewing, Recycled Clothing, Clothes Budget, Shopping Addiction, Sales, Hand-Me-Downs, Shopping Budget, Shopping, Used Clothing, Budget, Clearance Rack, Diy, Student Loans, Women News
LearnVest

"Dave," I announced on our final night of the "How Poor Are We?" summit, "I am going to give up my clothing budget for six months."

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Schools and Communities: Stronger Together

Randi Weingarten | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Education, Poverty, Community Reform, Budget Cuts, Budget, Education Reform, Teachers, Public Education, Students, Education News
Randi Weingarten

It's time to stop ignoring poverty and the realities that disadvantaged students face. We must instead address the factors that can and do impede student achievement and well-being.

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How to Get the Spring Wardrobe You Want for Less

Women & Co | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Budgeting, Women, Money, Shopping, Budget, Wardrobe, Spring, Spring Cleaning, Personal Budget, Fashion, Personal Finance, Women News
Women & Co

You can have it all without spending a small fortune. If you plan ahead, you don't need to splurge every time you shop.

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A Senate About Nothing

Craig Crawford | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Senate, Budget, Politics News
Craig Crawford

The deal with the Senate is that in an election year all they really want to do is argue, call each other names and repeat talking points their lobbyists wrote for them. But to stage these smackdowns they have to pretend that pending legislation is on the table.

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House VAWA Bill Ratchets Up Attacks on the Rights of Domestic Violence Survivors

Michelle Chen | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Lgbt, House of Representatives, Women's Rights, Women, Senate, Gay Rights, Violence Against Women, Women's Health, Budget, Economy, Gop, Domestic Violence, Barack Obama, Gender, Republicans, Politics News
Michelle Chen

By raising barriers to economic assistance and legal recourse, this legislation sends the message to countless women living in violent households that their place is still in the home.

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Graduate Economics: Balancing the Budget Without Benefit Cuts or Tax Increases

Mark R. Kennedy | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Graduation, Safeway, Economics, Obesity Epidemic, Budget, Incentives, Obesity, Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News
Mark R. Kennedy

Providing incentives to my children helped me to balance my checkbook. By doing the same, America could remain solvent with a lot less pain to beneficiaries and taxpayers.

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Senate Budget Plans Range From Extreme to Unimaginable

Deborah Weinstein | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, Food Stamps, Low-Income, Federal Budget, Taxes, SNAP Program, Senate, Budget 2013, Congress, Budget, Senate Budget, 112th Congress, Politics News
Deborah Weinstein

Today, the Coalition on Human Needs sent a letter making these points to every senator. May 16, 2012 Dear Senator: Today you will have the opportun...

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Ask the Readers: What Do You Wish You'd Learned About Money?

J.D. Roth | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Personal Finance, Money, Budget, Spending, Lifestyle, Income, Debt, Career, Financial Responsibility, Financial Lessons, Money News
J.D. Roth

Wouldn't it be nice if you could go back and give your younger self some words of wisdom? Since time travel doesn't exist, the best thing you can do is try to help other young people.

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Deficit Reduction: The Great Distraction

Dean Baker | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Deficit, Deficit Commission, Social Security, Erskine Bowles, Peter Peterson, Budget, Simpson-Bowles, Tax Cuts, Deficit Reduction, Business News
Dean Baker

When we hear Erskine Bowles and his friends rant about the deficit this week, we should remember that once again they are distracting the public from the country's real problems. And this crew is at the center of those problems; it is not the solution.

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Driving Blind: The Dangers of Defunding the Census

Arturo Vargas | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: House of Representatives, Census, Latinos, US Census Bureau, Politics, American Community Survey, Congress, Budget, Senate, Latino Voices News
Arturo Vargas

It's Public Policy 101: before you step, you should look. Before charting a course and spending money, lawmakers should get the information they need to make the best decision.

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Working Hard to Get Back on Track

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Child Poverty, Snap Benefits, Poverty, Reconciliation Budget, Snap, Food Stamps, Economy, Budget, Jobs, Tanf, Ryan Budget, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, Politics News
Marian Wright Edelman

Programs like Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, food stamps, and transitional housing are lifelines that work when people fall on hard times. We need to preserve them. But that's not what the Ryan "reconciliation budget" just passed by the House of Representatives would do.

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Bernie Sanders Advocates a Free Market in AIDS Drugs

Dean Baker | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Aids, HIV/AIDS, Prescription Drugs, Pharmaceutical Industry, Budget, Drug Patents, Prize System, Business News
Dean Baker

There are more efficient mechanisms than patent monopolies to finance drug research. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is proposing one such mechanism, a prize system, be adopted to support research on AIDS drugs.

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Toward a People's Budget: Vermont Adopts New Vision for State Spending and Revenue Policies

Anja Rudiger | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Human Rights, People's Budget, Tax, Revenue, Budget, Vermont, Politics News
Anja Rudiger

Almost exactly one year after enacting the United States' first universal health care law, the state of Vermont is once again showing the country that another world really is possible.

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Oregon Reforms Health Care For Poor Residents

The Huffington Post | Jeffrey Young | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Kathleen Sebelius, Health Care Costs, Budget, Economy, Jobs, Health Insurance, Barack Obama, Recession, Unemployment, Obamacare, Health Care Reform, Medicaid, Healthcare Reform, Health Care, John Kitzhaber, Healthcare, Oregon, Video, Business News

Oregon may have found a way to improve the health care it provides poor residents while saving money. The federal government has agreed to give the st...

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Budget Bunk: The Old Pox on Both Your Houses Game

Dean Baker | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Bill Clinton, Deficit, Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, Federal Budget Deficit, Budget, Housing Bubble, US Economy, Economic Crisis, Ryan Budget, Financial Crisis, US Economic Crisis, Federal Budget, Business News
Dean Baker

The economy did not regain the jobs lost in the 2001 recession until 2005, and even then it was on the back of another unsustainable bubble, this one in the housing market. And we know how that one ended.

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WATCH: Coupon Cards, From Kathy Spencer

Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Marlo Thomas, Mondays With Marlo, Coupons, Extreme Couponing, Shopping, Budget, Video, Women News

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WATCH: Kathy Spencer's Tips To Organizing Your Coupons

Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Marlo Thomas, Mondays With Marlo, How to Shop Fo Free, Coupons, Shopping, Budget, Video, Women News

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WATCH: Getting Clothes For Free, From Kathy Spencer

Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Marlo Thomas, Mondays With Marlo, Extreme Couponing, Coupons, Clothes, Shopping, Budget, How to Shop for Free, Video, Women News

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