The House and Senate are expected to vote Monday on
a plan that would lift the nation's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling and
avoid an unprecedented default on the ...
As the debate over the nation’s debt and deficit continues, the public
has grown more concerned that failing to raise the debt limit would
force the ...
The nation is headed toward a possible government default on Aug. 2 if
no agreement is reached to raise the debt ceiling. The public is still
coming to grips with ...
Colleges are tacking on mandatory student fees at a time when
state funding is dwindling and public universities are trying to hold the line
on tuition.
Far more Americans say that the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
has contributed a great deal to the nation’s debt than say that about
increased ...
One of the fundamental things to understand when considering the debate
about reducing our national debt is how we accumulated so much in the
first place.
States are calculating how long it will take before a political impasse over the federal debt ceiling begins to affect their bottom lines. Some are preparing backup ...
Talking About Budgets and Taxes is a toolkit compendium of
research on how Americans think about budgets and taxes, and how to
increase public support for policies ...
If the federal government begins defaulting on its obligations next week, it will clearly have some impact on states. The question is: How much? Read more in ...
House Speaker John Boehner’s new budget proposal would essentially require, as the price of raising the debt ceiling again early next year, a choice between ...
A deal that President Barack Obama and Republicans had been
working on for weeks to raise the federal debt ceiling — and cut federal
Medicaid spending — ...
In debt-ceiling talks, the Obama administration has floated the idea of overhauling crucial federal funding formulas for Medicaid. Governors are concerned, ...
According to a National Journal poll, voters worry that an agreement
will result in cuts to Medicare and Social Security that are too
deep. Meanwhile, ...
State officials are bracing for the impact of what Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam calls “an incredible game of chicken” over the federal debt ceiling, ...
Alarm bells are ringing in state capitols over the potential damage that could be done to states by the first-ever default of the federal government on its debt.
President Obama and
congressional leaders are rushing to craft a compromise agreement that
will avert a government debt default on August 2. The two
sides remain ...
