How Americans Would Prefer To Reduce The Deficit
April 17 (Reuters) - Cutting government programs is favored as the way to reduce the U.S. budget deficit by more than twice as many Americans as tho...
April 17 (Reuters) - Cutting government programs is favored as the way to reduce the U.S. budget deficit by more than twice as many Americans as tho...
Brendan McMahon | Posted 03.31.2012
If we as Americans are so willing to grossly over-fund our military and defund our arts, our deepest expression of ourselves both at home and abroad is simply an expression of war.
The Huffington Post | Posted 12.13.2011
Since as early as August, it's been clear that the United States federal deficit would top $1 trillion in 2011 for the third year in a row. At 8.7 per...
Pablo Andreu | Posted 02.08.2012
These anonymous YouTube-goers managed to uphold fiscal responsibility without compromising critical social programs -- a feat that has evaded Republican and Democratic politicians for years.
Dana Radcliffe | Posted 09.26.2011
The U.S. government's solvency after August 2 may well depend on who prevails in a sharply partisan debate about how bad a default would be for the economy -- ordinarily the sort of issue politicians leave to experts
Robert Kuttner | Posted 09.23.2011
At some point this week, stock and bond markets will begin to start swooning, and the usual wise guys will begin making high-risk bets at the expense of financial stability as a whole. Obama will be revealed to be holding more of the cards -- if he starts playing his hand well (for a change).
New York Times | Posted 09.19.2011
The federal government plans to shut 40 percent of its computer centers over the next four years to reduce its hefty technology budget and modernize t...
Pablo Andreu | Posted 09.14.2011
Aaron Ryder, a schoolboy from Raleigh, North Carolina, today solved America's debt crisis by applying long division best practices to the country's budget.
David M. Abromowitz | Posted 09.08.2011
The choices being made today by leaders in Washington will determine if the titanic U.S. economy stays afloat or sinks further underwater. Choices that tilt in favor of the wealthy would come at the expense of those who are most vulnerable.
Bloomberg | John Detrixhe | Posted 06.13.2011
President Barack Obama's plan to cut $4 trillion in cumulative deficits within 12 years may be a "positive" for the nation's credit quality and mark a...
Manisha Singh | Posted 05.25.2011
Many activists appear before policy makers urging increased funding for foreign aid causes. One of the key things to remember is what Mr. Clooney said -- money is not always the answer.
Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 05.25.2011
There, I said it. It's true. However, with the past few weeks hoopla and game-playing around the Arizona massacre, I did an experiment with the head...
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Congress cleared a stopgap funding bill Tuesday to keep the federal government open into March, a temporary truce until Republicans...
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Democrats controlling the House muscled through legislation Wednesday night that would freeze the budgets of most Cabinet departmen...
Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 05.25.2011
With imports soaring, we're stimulating the production of China, not the US. The Obama administration refuses to enforce our trade laws to protect the economy and change our tax laws to promote exports.
Dean Baker | Posted 05.25.2011
Those who want fantastic stories about the unknowable would be much better off visiting people who promise to communicate with the dead than listening to the Wall Street spokespeople.
Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011
If we continue doing nothing, in about 35 years, the government will have no money for anything other than Medicare, Social Security and interest on the money we've already borrowed.
Reuters | Posted 04.18.2012