Tag: Budgets and Deficits

Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, speaks at a packed meeting of the Chicago Board of Education Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Chicago. The board is expected to take a final vote Wednesday on whether to close 53 schools, an ambitious proposal that sparked protests and lawsuits and could help define â for better or worse â Mayor Rahm Emanuel's term in office. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Chicago teachers will forgo 4th year of contact

Associated Press · May 6, 2014 4:00 am

Missouri House Speaker Tim Jones stands behind a lectern with microphones Tuesday, April 22, 2014, alongside Sen. Will Kraus, left, and other Republican lawmakers during a news conference at the Capitol in Jefferson City, Mo. Jones said Republicans remain supportive of an income tax cut sponsored by Kraus, despite Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon's new assertion that it could bust a $4.8 billion hole in the state budget. (AP Photo/David Lieb)

Missouri budget negotiators face Friday deadline

Associated Press · May 6, 2014 4:00 am

Detroit expecting $195M lump sum from Michigan

Ed White · May 5, 2014 9:33 pm

Oil producers get break on Alaska property taxes

Washington Examiner · May 5, 2014 7:24 pm

House GOP budget spares weapons, military benefits

Donna Cassata · May 5, 2014 7:05 pm

Debt collector shutting down after agreement with N.Y. AG

Bryan Cohen · May 5, 2014 6:39 pm

Marijuana is stored in bins for trimming and packaging in preparation to be sold retail at 3D Cannabis Center, in Denver, Friday Feb. 14, 2014. The marijuana industry breathed a sigh of relief Friday after federal banking regulators issued long-awaited permission for them to access basic banking services. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Marijuana gets warehouse owners buzzing as Colorado farms thrive

Bloomberg News · May 5, 2014 4:00 am

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie answers a question in Trenton, N.J., Tuesday, April 29. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Chris Christie resorts to e-cigarette tax to plug $807 million deficit

Bloomberg News · May 5, 2014 4:00 am

Lou Tashash, owner and president of R-D Manufacturing Inc., left, watches break operator Scott Finlayson work at his precision sheet manufacturing business in East Lyme, Conn. Tashash, who employs 14 workers, is lobbying legislators to kill a measure to establish a state-run pension plan, which he sees as a burdensome mandate. Lawmakers in Connecticut and other states are responding to a widespread loss of private-sector pensions, a lack of access to employer-sponsored retirement accounts in smaller businesses and stagnant incomes that make it hard for workers to contribute to their own retirement plan or company account. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

States seek a spot in retirement plan landscape

Stephen Singer · May 5, 2014 4:00 am

President Obama (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Illinois is foolish to compete for the Obama library

Steve Chapman · May 5, 2014 4:00 am

A student reads a book on the quad of the University of Alabama. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)

Student loan interest rates to rise with Treasury 10-year note

Bloomberg News · May 5, 2014 4:00 am

National Security

In Iraq and Afghanistan, companies manage taxpayer money with little oversight

Washington Examiner · May 5, 2014 4:00 am