North Carolina state lawmakers came back to Raleigh on Tuesday after a month break, and successfully overturned eight of ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott named property tax cuts a priority in the special session, along with redistricting and flood relief.

Today, July 30, the Medicare and Medicaid programs celebrate their 60th birthdays. That means that Medicare is only five years away from being eligible for itself.

Close to 140,000 Minnesotans are likely to lose health care coverage under Medicaid cuts that are expected to cost the state $1.4 billion in federal revenue over the next four years, according to a ...

Eight Hundred Years of Financial Folly,” Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart found that over the centuries, a high public debt level has been among the most reliable indicators of future financial ...

The hypocrisy of the GOP in Congress is simply astounding to me.

The Trump administration promised that the $9 billion rescission package Congress passed this month on spending for foreign aid and government broadcasting would be the first of many. The White House ...

House Bill 125, the spending bill that passed 47-2 in the Senate on Tuesday, includes step increases for public school teachers, which are the small, annual increases in salary pre-approved by the ...

The Pentagon got a whopping $150 billion increase in the budget bill passed by Congress and signed by the president July 4. That will push next year’s proposed Pentagon budget to more than $1 trillion ...

A gambling tax provision in President Trump’s megabill that passed Congress earlier this month is ruffling feathers on both sides of the aisle. Tucked into the approximately 1,000-page tax ...

State House and Senate leaders still haven’t reached an agreement on a budget for the fiscal year that started this month, ...

Learn the psychological reasons behind the cashless effect and get practical strategies to stay in control of your finances ...