WASHINGTON – More than 15 million taxpayers may owe the government $250 or more because of how the IRS last spring set up President Barack Obama...
nytimes.com | NYT | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
If you are looking for an economic recovery you can believe in, the October employment report is not for you. ...
Times Online | By Suzy Jagger | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland -- U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown and U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner clashed over potential taxes on bank transactio...
Posted 11.07.2009 | Denver
Governor Ritter announced Friday his budget proposal for the 2010-2011 fiscal year, which includes $260 million in cuts to K-12 education funding, and...
Michael Laracy | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
The TANF Emergency Fund is potentially an important resource for states, which get four federal dollars from the fund for each dollar they put up.
The Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Fred Schulte | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
Editor's note: This story is published in conjunction with American University's Investigative Reporting Workshop. The government's $45 billion pl...
Robert Reich | Posted 11.08.2009 | Business
Obama must return to Congress for more stimulus spending. Here's how he should sell it.
Stephen Balkam | Posted 11.05.2009 | Technology
We need to build a Culture of Responsibility online where government, law enforcement, industry, teachers, parents and the kids themselves accept differing yet overlapping areas of responsibility.
Harry Moroz | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
Our politicians are fooling us with legislation that looks like stimulus, but sure doesn't quack like one.
James M. Gentile | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green
Transformative science is high-risk high-reward inquiry. It's crucial that government take the lead in this regard, especially with the U.S. economy struggling.
Bloomberg | Shobhana Chandra | Posted 11.03.2009 | Business
Orders placed with U.S. factories rose in September for the fifth time in six months, reinforcing signs that manufacturing will drive the economic rec...
Jerry Chautin | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business
Although small business, economic stimulus lending is being widely criticized, $5,000 to $25,000 is available to you if you have a reasonable credit score and meet basic underwriting criteria.
The Denver Daily News | Peter Marcus | Posted 11.02.2009 | Denver
The president of the Colorado Community College System says "everything is on the table" as higher education braces for yet more painful cuts. Gov....
Paul Abrams | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
As good students of history, you recognize that Reagan did not inherit the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. And tax rates today are already 14% lower than Reagan's 1981 tax cut.
Posted 10.30.2009 | Technology
Layar's new augmented reality app allows iPhone 3G and Android users to see where recovery.gov contract dollars are going in the world around them. S...
AP | MATT APUZZO and BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE | Posted 10.30.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Nearly 650,000 jobs have been saved or created under President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan, the government said Friday, a...
USA Today | By Brad Heath and Matt Kelley, USA TODAY | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business
States have reported using stimulus money to create or save more than 388,000 jobs so far this year, buttressing the Obama administration's claim that...
Rep. Joe Sestak | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
Losing health care along with one's job is something Americans should not have to cope with at this difficult time. So I have introduced the Extended COBRA Continuation Protection Act of 2009.
Yahoo! News | Tom Doggett | Posted 10.27.2009 | Technology
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- President Barack Obama on Tuesday will announce $3.4 billion in government grants to help build a "smart" electric grid that w...
Associated Press | Steven K. Paulson | Posted 10.22.2009 | Denver
DENVER--Racing to come up with proposals to save higher education from a financial cliff, college presidents held a brainstorming summit Thursday at t...
Harry Moroz | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
Despite the overblown criticism of the latest stimulus jobs numbers, job creation is lagging in the United States and the economy is clearly not working for the majority of American middle-class households.
The Denver Post | Miles Moffeit and Burt Hubbard | Posted 10.16.2009 | Denver
Colorado companies have created more jobs through federal contracts funded with stimulus dollars than companies in every other state, according to the...
Huffington Post | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business
The public will get a chance to see in detail how their stimulus money is being spent when data is released about the $787 billion stimulus package on...
salon.com | Andrew Leonard | Posted 10.07.2009 | Business
Call it the the stimulus that dare not be named. Bloomberg reports that the Obama administration is considering "a mix of spending programs and tax cu...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/business/07tax.html | Catherine Rampell | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
The idea of a tax credit for companies that create new jobs, something the federal government has not tried since the 1970s, is gaining support among ...
AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business