WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congress is taking action Thursday to avert a government shutdown. However, lawmakers are doing so by not addressing the debt ceiling. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has said if ...

WASHINGTON -- While the concept of the debt ceiling might seem "in the weeds," it actually poses a very real threat to millions of Americans in a precarious economic period. If lawmakers on Capitol ...

Despite all the hand-wringing over raising the federal debt limit, and the prickly debate between Democrats and Republicans, there’s some confusion about what it actually means. A recent Pew Research ...

Media coverage of the current debt ceiling debate in Washington is not entirely false, but it is often not entirely accurate, either. While lamentations such as “Social Security payments won’t go out!