Americans are mad as hell about the way things are going in the United States. It’s not clear if they’re going to take it anymore.
President Obama on Thursday warned Congress not to “kill” the growing economy by risking a government shutdown this fall.
The director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), who was appointed by GOP lawmakers earlier this year, said Tuesday that tax cuts don’t pay for themselves.
IF YOU think this summer of presidential campaign politics has been wild, and last week’s news from Wall Street a bit scary, wait until Congress gets back after Labor Day. The federal government is heading toward a fiscal train wreck, and, at the moment, it’s far from clear how lawmakers will avoid it.
As the nation’s bridges and roads deteriorate and Congress dawdles over a serious solution, statehouse politicians have been stepping up at a surprising rate to make some difficult choices.
Jobless claims ticked up slightly last week, though the labor market appears to be improving overall.
The U.S. economic recovery is sorely missing a healthy rate of inflation.
As the U.S. economic expansion ages and clouds gather overseas, policy makers worry about recession. Their concern isn’t that a downturn is imminent but whether they will have firepower to fight back when one does arrive.
If nobody on Capitol Hill celebrated in July when Congress approved transportation funding for three months, it’s because lawmakers bought themselves a little time at the expense of what could be a truly awful autumn.
The United States government ran a much higher budget deficit in July than a year ago, but it is still on track for the lowest full-year deficit in eight years.
Just 14 percent of Americans approve of the way Congress is doing its job, according to a new Gallup survey released Wednesday, and they do not seem all that enamored with Republican leaders in the House and Senate, either.
The road doesn’t care if you are young or old, male or female, rich or poor. The road is there for you, to calm you and excite you, to take you back home and to familiar places to lead to new paths of adventure, discovery and joy. To let the explorer in you explore.