Tag: Budgets and Deficits

The lingering jobs crisis following the 2008 financial crash lacks one of the few silver linings associated with previous recessions: people living healthier lifestyles. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Beltway Confidential

Past recessions boosted health, but not the Great Recession

Joseph Lawler · July 22, 2013 4:00 am

This week will see continued discussion of the fate of Detroit which filed for municipal bankruptcy on Thursday evening. (AP/Paul Sancya)

The week ahead in economics: President Obama’s jobs pivot, housing, and Detroit

Joseph Lawler · July 22, 2013 4:00 am

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State Obamacare exchanges unlikely to make deadline, GAO says

Richard Pollock · July 19, 2013 4:00 am

Thanks to artificially low interest rates, the United States has been able to finance deficits exceeding $1 trillion every year from 2009 through 2012 at very low cost. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Big Ideas: On deficits, leaner armies and government innovation

Joseph Lawler · July 19, 2013 4:00 am

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, smiles as he walks to the floor of the House of Representatives as the GOP majority passed legislation to replace the No Child Left Behind law, in Washington, Friday, July 19. The Student Success Act reflects the long-held Republican premise that Washington has no business determining how local school systems are run. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

House passes revamp of No Child Left Behind law

Sean Lengell · July 19, 2013 4:00 am

The headquarters of the Consumer Financial Protection Board, 1700 G St. NW in Washington. (Photo: Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Congressmen fume at CFPB’s lavish renovation expenses

Richard Pollock · July 19, 2013 4:00 am

Sen. David Vitter, R-La. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

MANHATTAN MOMENT: Dodd-Frank, meet Warren and Vitter

Nicole Gelinas · July 19, 2013 4:00 am

On Thursday, July 18, 2013, Detroit became the largest city in U.S. history to file for bankruptcy when State-appointed emergency manager Kevyn Orr asked a federal judge for municipal bankruptcy protection. (AP/Paul Sancya)

Detroit files for bankruptcy

Joseph Lawler · July 18, 2013 4:00 am

Fat paychecks for CFPB officials, hundreds paid more than Fed Chairman, congressmen, Supreme Court justices

Fat paychecks for CFPB officials, hundreds paid more than Fed Chairman, congressmen, Supreme Court justices

Richard Pollock · July 18, 2013 4:00 am

Obama’s newest health care pitch: Ignore the ‘political football’

Brian Hughes · July 18, 2013 4:00 am

IRS officials cancelled one of the furlough days scheduled as a budget-cutting measure. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Beltway Confidential

IRS cancels furlough day

Joel Gehrke · July 18, 2013 4:00 am

Sens. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, left, and Tom Coburn, R-Okla., wish to prohibit federal employees from doing union work on the taxpayers' dime. (AP File)

Bill introduced in Senate to curb ‘official time’ for federal employees doing union work

Mark Flatten · July 17, 2013 4:00 am