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WASHINGTON — The Republican Party’s new point man on food stamps, Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas), insists that he doesn’t want to cut nutrition assistance benefits. Instead, Conaway is leading a…
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WASHINGTON — The Republican Party’s new point man on food stamps, Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas), insists that he doesn’t want to cut nutrition assistance benefits. Instead, Conaway is leading a…
NEW DELHI — India’s finance minister, Arun Jaitley, unveiled the first full-year budget of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government on Saturday, promising to boost growth with a major increase in…
NEW DELHI — India’s finance minister announced the government’s new budget on Saturday, promising a slew of measures that attempt to balance welfare spending with high economic growth and infrastructure…
India’s budget is a closely-watched TV event, with pre- and post-game analyses on every TV news channel. Even by those standards, Saturday’s budget generated more interest than in previous years,…
NEW DELHI — In a subterranean workshop in India’s Ministry of Finance, roughly 100 government workers are nearing the end of their captivity. For nine days and nights, while they…
HONG KONG — Two months after protesters were cleared from the streets, the Hong Kong government announced on Wednesday an annual budget full of tax breaks and other handouts to…
If proposals by two Republican governors are approved, public universities in Illinois and Wisconsin could soon experience sweeping layoffs, program eliminations and possible campus closures. This month, Illinois Gov. Bruce…
The following post first appeared on FactCheck.org. Sen. Rand Paul made several misleading statements about the National Institutes of Health and some of the research that it funds. Paul spoke…
We have sparred privately and publicly on a range of issues on any number of occasions. But on this one, we both agree: government shouldand canplay “Moneyball.” “Moneyball for Government”…
Try to talk about the policies we need in a depressed world economy, and someone is sure to counter with the specter of Weimar Germany, supposedly an object lesson in…
The visit to South Carolina next Wednesday, and West Virginia the following day, will focus on Kasich’s push for a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced federal budget, according to a…
More than half of people in the USA with significant savings fear going broke in retirement, a recent survey showed, but there are ways to live frugally to try to…
BATON ROUGE, La. — In recent weeks, the office of Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana has issued news releases about the “mindless naïveté” of Hillary Rodham Clinton, the folly of…
Attorney General Eric Holder last month announced reforms to asset forfeitures, the controversial government practice of seizing property associated with alleged illicit activity. But the new Justice Department budget released…
The age-old question “What do you want to do?” has plagued humanity since the dawn of civilized social interactions. When a small budget is involved, this question becomes even more…
The two-year, $68 billion budget proposal Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker unveiled Tuesday includes a request for $250,000 to study the health impacts of wind turbines. Page 449 of the budget…
In addition to unprecedented budget cuts to the University of Wisconsin (UW) system, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker struck “the search for truth” and the Wisconsin Idea from the university’s mission…
Joe Biden visited the offices of VICE Magazine, which makes sense because we could totally see him starring in video features on the strange world of Slovenian strippers’ bridge tournaments….
Something kept nagging at me, and it wasn’t until this very moment that I finally figured out what. It’s the idea that this article would be labeled “opinion” or “editorial”…
The $4 trillion budget President Barack Obama sent Congress on Monday is his blueprint for reviving “middle class opportunity.” Liberals are thrilled by the redistributive thrust of the president’s budgetit…
This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In yet another sign President Barack Obama is making climate change…
WASHINGTON — As Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) shifts his focus to national politics in preparation for a likely presidential run, controversy over his proposed state budget may force his…
President Barack Obama impressed the need to make “smart investments that strengthen America” when he introduced his record $4 trillion budget plan for fiscal year 2016 on Monday, which includes…
President Barack Obama’s nearly $4 trillion federal budget plan unveiled Monday includes fine print that may have major consequences for marijuana legalization in Washington, D.C. Obama’s addition of a single…
WASHINGTON — President Obama presented a budget on Monday that is more utopian vision than pragmatic blueprint. It proposes a politically improbable reshaping of the tax code and generous new…
NEWPORT, Vt. (AP) — Thousands of former inmates can claim the Community High School of Vermont as their alma mater, the place they received the education allowing them to become…
WASHINGTON — President Obama on Monday released an aggressive $4 trillion budget blueprint for next year that proclaims victory in the long, difficult climb from recession and relies on large…
WASHINGTON — President Obama is asking the new Republican Congress for a base defense budget of $534 billion in 2016, the Pentagon said on Monday in its annual budget release,…
The White House has touted a growing economy and shrinking deficits as the impetus for proposing a range of measures aimed at helping low- and middle-income families. These would be…
WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s fiscal 2016 budget proposes $7.4 billion to fund clean energy technologies and a $4 billion fund to encourage U.S. states to make…