Despite all the heated rhetoric and the gloomy economic forecasts, most states will start the new fiscal year Friday with budgets in place.

If you said on January 1 that long-standing regimes in the Arab world would topple in the first half of 2011 AND that there’d be a massive earthquake and nuclear crisis in Japan AND that floods, tornadoes and wildfires would wreak havoc on a large portion of the United States, congratulations. You get a cookie.

How many ways are there to sidestep Congress’ refusal to make it easier for unions to organize? Let us count them. No, better than that, let’s add yet another example — this one involving Delta Airlines — to the growing pile of end-runs around Congress to reward a constituency this White House badly needs at […]

The Senate will forgo its scheduled recess for the week of July 4 to work on legislation to raise the debt ceiling and cut the deficit, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday.

The number of Americans filing for first-time unemployment benefits slipped only slightly last week, falling short of economists’ expectations for a bigger drop.

Roughly 530 colleges across the country will soon have to submit special reports to Uncle Sam, explaining why their tuition and student fees have recently surged.

Banks and credit card issuers got a break Wednesday from the Federal Reserve.

Banks and credit card issuers got a break Wednesday from the Federal Reserve, which proposed a cap on the fees big banks charge retailers when customers use debit cards that wasn’t as severe as originally planned.

Only a limited array of state services would continue in Minnesota if there is a government shutdown Friday, a judge ruled.

With the clock ticking down, President Obama told lawmakers in no uncertain terms Wednesday that he expects them to deliver a compromise deal to raise the debt ceiling.

State budget cuts are sending college tuition at some public schools soaring.

Big energy company executives and government researchers are firing back at a recent New York Times story suggesting the recent boom in natural gas production from shale rock is unsustainable and perhaps fraudulent.

Narodowa Strategia Spójności (Narodowe Strategiczne Ramy Odniesienia), zaakceptowana przez Komisję Europejską w dniach 9 – 10 maja 2007 r.  otworzyła przed polskimi przedsiębiorcami szansę na pozyskanie dofinansowania umożliwiającego im rozwój w obszarze ich działalności. W samych latach 2007 – 2013 z Europejskiego Funduszu Rozwoju Regionalnego, Europejskiego Funduszu Społecznego oraz Funduszu Spójności Polska otrzyma 67,3 mld […]

California lawmakers approved a $86 billion budget late Tuesday that imposes deep spending cuts but does not extend tax hikes.

The Senate will officially take up three trade deals and a scaled-back version of a jobs retraining program for laid-off workers on Thursday.

The Senate will officially take up three trade deals and a scaled-back version of a jobs retraining program for laid-off workers on Thursday.

First the good news: State and local tax revenues climbed 4.7% in the first quarter, fueled by a surge in personal income taxes.

Here’s what Americans can look forward to if lawmakers fail to raise the debt ceiling in time: Treasury would not be able to pay between 40% and 45% of the 80 million payments it needs to make every month.

How should the United States deal with its growing debt problem? Ron Paul thinks declaring „bankruptcy” might be a good idea.

QE2 is done. But the Federal Reserve will still be buying massive amounts of long-term Treasuries.

Protests turned violent Tuesday in Greece as police fired tear gas in Athens to disperse stone-throwing demonstrators who had taken to the streets to voice their objection to austerity measures.

Any deal to raise the debt ceiling will have to include steep cuts to federal spending. But might it also include tax hikes?