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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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...
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The High Cost of Child Poverty
Childhood poverty cost $1.03 trillion in 2015, including the loss of economic productivity, increased spending on health care and increased crime rates, according to a recent study in the journal...
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Would a Democratic Win in the Midterms Lead to Lower Prescription Drug Prices?
We’re 200 days away from November’s midterms, and while we don’t want to get too far ahead of ourselves — 200 days, after all, could also be counted as about 20 Scaramuccis in Trumpworld — Goldman...
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Have the Trump Tax Cuts Flopped?
Sunday marks four months since President Trump signed the Republican tax overhaul into law. So it surprised us just a bit to see economist Andrew Hunter of Capital Economics already asking: “Have the...
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How Congress Cheats with Our Money — and How We Can Stop It
The U.S. is on course to top its record debt levels set after World War II, and permanent trillion-dollar deficits — meaning, forever — are likely to return within two years . And unlike after World...
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Could Another Round of Tax Cuts Backfire on Republicans?
Republicans face a dilemma in their quest to pass another massive tax cut ahead of November’s midterm elections. Party leaders have pledged to make permanent individual tax cuts in the tax overhaul...
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Will Work for Food? Republicans Push Stricter Rules for SNAP
Funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), more commonly known as food stamps, is provided in the farm bill, a massive spending and regulatory package Congress passes every...