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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Chart of the Day: Despite Trump's Tax Cuts, GDP Expectations Sag
The Commerce Department is scheduled to issue its advance estimate of first-quarter GDP on Friday, and the report is widely expected to show economic growth slowed over the first few months of the...
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Why Republicans Won’t Even Try to Pass a Budget for 2019
Budget expert Stan Collender at Forbes slams Republicans for not even attempting to pass a budget for the fiscal year that starts October 1. “The House and Senate Budget Committees only have one job...
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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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Deficit Owls Say You Shouldn’t Give a Hoot About $1 Trillion Budget Shortfall
As warnings rise about the Congressional Budget Office’s projection that the federal budget deficit is on pace to top $1 trillion in 2020, The Washington Post’s Jeff Stein on Friday highlighted a...
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The Biggest Winners from the ‘Small Business’ Tax Cuts
Republicans insisted that their tax cuts on pass-through entities were meant to reduce the tax burden on small businesses and thus spur job creation. But updated estimates from the Joint Committee on...
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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...