Tag: Budgets and Deficits

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will again take aim at what he calls the "exploding" costs of public employee pensions and health care in his fifth annual budget message Tuesday. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Chris Christie: New Jersey hampered by ‘exploding’ retiree costs

ANGELA DELLI SANTI · February 25, 2014 5:00 am

EXography: Ending improper federal payments could eliminate billions in waste and fraud

EXography: Ending improper federal payments could eliminate billions in waste and fraud

Veronique de Rugy · February 25, 2014 5:00 am

Residents of Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti and Ypsilanti Township are expected to vote in May on a proposed public transit tax to raise nearly $4.4 million in annual funding to implement a five-year transit improvement plan. (Thinkstock Image)

May vote scheduled for Michigan transit tax

Associated Press · February 24, 2014 5:00 am

Chuck Hagel to propose big cuts in Army in 2015 budget

National Security

Chuck Hagel to propose big cuts in Army in 2015 budget

Robert Burns · February 24, 2014 5:00 am

The gap between the wealthy and the poor is most extreme in several of the United States' most prosperous and largest cities.

Wealth gap is widest in some affluent U.S. cities

Associated Press · February 24, 2014 5:00 am

Both former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and current Chairwoman Janet Yellen have been careful to reassure markets that they have not been trying to tighten money conditions by reducing monthly bond purchases by $10 billion at recent meetings. (Photo: Thinkstock)

The week ahead in economics: The money supply, heavyweights, Janet Yellen and GDP

Joseph Lawler · February 24, 2014 5:00 am

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, accompanied by Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, briefs reporters at the Pentagon, Monday, Feb. 24, 2014, where he recommended shrinking the Army to its smallest size since the buildup to U.S. involvement in World War II in an effort to balance postwar defense needs with budget realities. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Pentagon budget request would reduce troops

Tim Mak · February 24, 2014 5:00 am

Detroit Police vehicles are parked in a neighborhood in Detroit where a 4-year-old boy was shot by his 4-year-old cousin with a rifle. (AP Photo/Detroit News, Jose Juarez)

Detroit police feel the pain of city’s money woes

Associated Press · February 22, 2014 5:00 am

President Obama (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

No, there is no consensus on Obama’s policies

David Harsanyi · February 21, 2014 5:00 am

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Reform entitlements — or go bust

Charles Paul Blahous · February 21, 2014 5:00 am

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2014 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington. The White House says President Barack Obama's upcoming budget proposal will not include his past offer to accept lowered cost-of-living increases in Social Security and other benefit programs. Those had been a central component of his long-term debt-reduction strategy. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Obama budget to drop benefit cost-of-living trims

Jim Kuhnhenn · February 21, 2014 12:14 am

President Obama's upcoming budget will not include a previous offer to lower cost-of-living increases for Social Security and other government benefits, the White House said Thursday. (AP Photo)

Obama’s budget won’t shrink cost-of-living increase

Brian Hughes · February 20, 2014 5:00 am