History supports Moody’s assessment that “successive US administrations and Congress have failed to agree on measures to ...

The average taxpayer’s piece of the $37-trillion federal debt is about $240,000, or six years of the median income.

What Democrats and the Biden administration did was to make the COVID crisis their baseline for spending and keep it there.

With interest costs outpacing defense spending, this piece will help journalists understand the public debt and explain it to ...

Estimates from the Congressional Budget Office, released Thursday, offer a detailed view into the effects on income groups.

Fox News has mentioned Medicaid, the vital federal health insurance program that President Donald Trump and his Republican ...

Older, wealthier Americans would see the biggest lifetime benefit from the Republican budget bill, while younger generations ...

Still, as your question suggests, economists across the ideological spectrum say the overall bill would hurt, in part because ...

A couple of key mortgage rates moved down. Lower mortgage rates could bring positive news to the housing market in 2025.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) rose to its highest figure in 16 weeks on Thursday, testing above 43,300 for the ...

As the punishing Mississippi sun baked the grounds of one of America’s most notorious prisons, a wheelchair-bound man was so ...

But, the latest monthly Treasury statement delivered a rare — and welcome — surprise. In April 2025, the U.S. government ...