U.S. military leaders recently announced they would ask Congress for more funding to combat the terrorist organization ISIS, ...
On a recent day in Florida, hundreds of people gathered to examine federal budget issues, question former members ...
A recent Brookings paper says deficit-financed tax cuts generally do little to boost economic growth, and can even ...
A new report says many patients are not receiving the care they want in the final stages of ...
President Obama signed spending legislation late last week that will keep the government open through mid-December but leaves ...
In 2011, Medicare spent $170 billion, or 28 percent of its total expenditures, on services for beneficiaries in ...
In recent years the U.S. government increased its debt more sharply than most other large, wealthy countries did. ...
Lawmakers have continued to dawdle on a budget for Fiscal 2015, now only two weeks away. House leaders, ...
With Fiscal 2014 winding down, the Treasury Department’s latest monthly statement indicates the federal deficit is heading for ...
Actuaries from the Center on Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) report that in 2013 health care spending grew ...
Updated projections from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) serve as a reminder that the aging of the U.S. ...
Residents of Rockford, Illinois recently joined U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos and The Concord Coalition to discuss the nation’s ...