Tag: Budgets and Deficits

The Arizona Legislature's appropriations and human services committees plan meetings on Gov. Jan Brewer's proposal for overhauling the state's child welfare agency. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, David Wallace)

Arizona lawmakers to mull CPS budget additions

Associated Press · May 28, 2014 4:00 am

Quinn spokeswoman: Budget delays ‘tough decisions’

Washington Examiner · May 27, 2014 11:12 pm

Illinois House advances 2015 budget

KERRY LESTERSARA BURNETT · May 27, 2014 10:52 pm

Grass and weeds grow in front of two vacant homes in Detroit, Tuesday, May 27, 2014. Removing blighted residential properties, lots and vacant commercial structures that have plagued Detroit neighborhoods for decades would cost $850 million, a task force said Tuesday. The study by the Detroit Blight Removal Task Force is part of efforts announced last year by the administration of President Barack Obama to help Detroit, which is trying to work through the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Cost to remove some Detroit blight: $850 million

Jeff Karoub · May 27, 2014 8:51 pm

Cullerton: Revenue action needed after election

Washington Examiner · May 27, 2014 8:18 pm

Illinois Legislature addresses budget in last week

Washington Examiner · May 27, 2014 2:57 pm

Crisis: ‘Unprecedented’ number of young illegal immigrants pouring over U.S. border

Paul Bedard · May 27, 2014 1:50 pm

Hillary Clinton's popularity as former secretary of State helped Obama win the foreign policy issue which he has since lost. AP Photo

Obama loses edge on foreign policy, national security, taxes in new poll

Paul Bedard · May 27, 2014 1:39 pm

FILE - This Jan. 23, 2013 file photo shows California State Assemblyman Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, center, at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. From California to Rhode Island, many states are finding that their health care costs for low-income residents will rise as an unintended consequence of the new federal health care law. That's because people previously eligible for Medicaid _ even before President Barack Obama expanded the safety-net program _ are signing up in unexpectedly high numbers. For states red or blue, the problem is that they have to use more of their own money to cover this particular group.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

States face new cost concerns with Medicaid surge

Ricardo AlonsoZaldivar · May 27, 2014 7:10 am

Illinois Democrats regroup, craft budget without higher tax

JOHN O'CONNORKERRY LESTER · May 27, 2014 12:13 am

House Democrats on the spot with tax, budget votes

Kerry Lester · May 26, 2014 9:59 pm

Taxpayers paid nearly $600,000 to rehab this three-bedroom, two-bathroom house at 4419 N. Kimball Ave. in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood with amenities like granite countertops and hardwood floors -- and it wound up selling for less than $200,000, an investigation by the Chicago Reporter found. More was spent on this single home than on rehabbing homes in the entire Roseland neighborhood, the Reporter found. (Photo: SpotProperty)

HUD money puts ‘luxury finishes’ on houses while Chicago’s hard-hit neighborhoods suffer

Kelly Cohen · May 26, 2014 1:46 pm