Tag: Budgets and Deficits

Manager Orr testifies in Detroit bankruptcy trial

Corey Williams · October 2, 2014 12:18 am

6 implicated in National Guard bribery scheme

Washington Examiner · October 1, 2014 9:47 pm

Paul Ryan says he hopes his party can hit singles and doubles when it comes to spending and taxing. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Ryan hoping for ‘singles and doubles’ if Republicans win control of Senate

Joseph Lawler · September 29, 2014 7:16 pm

US grants $450M to link job training to employers

Washington Examiner · September 29, 2014 4:34 pm

The world is falling deeper into debt and faces the ugly prospect of either continued slow economic growth or another financial crisis, a new report written by former central bankers warns. (iStock Photo)

World faces slow growth or another crisis, former central bankers warn

Joseph Lawler · September 29, 2014 3:41 pm

Students protest the rising costs of student loans for higher education on Hollywood Boulevard in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

Student loans may drag down economy for years

Sean Higgins · September 29, 2014 9:00 am

The Pentagon calls it "risk," but it's really Washington's most hotly debated unfunded mandate: the growing gap between the military's budget and what it is being asked to do. (iStock Image)

Gap widens between defense funding and military mission

Charles Hoskinson · September 29, 2014 9:00 am

Energy and Environment

Chicago parks to get $2.4M in state money

Washington Examiner · September 29, 2014 8:03 am

FILE - In this March 14, 2013, file photo, Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr, left, speaks at a news conference in Detroit as Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, who appointed Orr, listens. Orr's success in shepherding Detroit through its historic bankruptcy will leave him unemployed, at least temporarily, when and if his task in the Motor City is complete. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Bankruptcy’s end more clear than Orr’s future

Corey Williams · September 28, 2014 5:32 pm

Federal agencies are inflating the number of economically-disadvantaged small businesses they say they're contracting with, handing out more than $400 million to ineligible firms last year alone. (iStock Photo)

Feds gave $400 million in contracts to ineligible firms

Sarah Bedford · September 28, 2014 9:00 am

he total cost of Bush's Iraq and Afghanistan wars will come to at least $4 trillion, according to a study by Harvard scholar Linda Bilmes. Had we known that -- and had we been forced to make a noticeable sacrifice with every paycheck -- we might have insisted he do things differently, Chapman writes. (iStock Photo)

The latest war will not be free

Steve Chapman · September 27, 2014 8:06 pm

Pentagon wants tighter soldier loan protections

Jim Kuhnhenn · September 26, 2014 7:43 pm