Tag: Budgets and Deficits

Students protest the rising costs of student loans for higher education on Hollywood Boulevard in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

Student loans may drag down economy for years

Sean Higgins · September 29, 2014 9:00 am

The Pentagon calls it "risk," but it's really Washington's most hotly debated unfunded mandate: the growing gap between the military's budget and what it is being asked to do. (iStock Image)

Gap widens between defense funding and military mission

Charles Hoskinson · September 29, 2014 9:00 am

Chicago parks to get $2.4M in state money

Energy and Environment

Chicago parks to get $2.4M in state money

Washington Examiner · September 29, 2014 8:03 am

FILE - In this March 14, 2013, file photo, Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr, left, speaks at a news conference in Detroit as Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, who appointed Orr, listens. Orr's success in shepherding Detroit through its historic bankruptcy will leave him unemployed, at least temporarily, when and if his task in the Motor City is complete. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Bankruptcy’s end more clear than Orr’s future

Corey Williams · September 28, 2014 5:32 pm

Federal agencies are inflating the number of economically-disadvantaged small businesses they say they're contracting with, handing out more than $400 million to ineligible firms last year alone. (iStock Photo)

Feds gave $400 million in contracts to ineligible firms

Sarah Bedford · September 28, 2014 9:00 am

he total cost of Bush's Iraq and Afghanistan wars will come to at least $4 trillion, according to a study by Harvard scholar Linda Bilmes. Had we known that -- and had we been forced to make a noticeable sacrifice with every paycheck -- we might have insisted he do things differently, Chapman writes. (iStock Photo)

The latest war will not be free

Steve Chapman · September 27, 2014 8:06 pm

Pentagon wants tighter soldier loan protections

Pentagon wants tighter soldier loan protections

Jim Kuhnhenn · September 26, 2014 7:43 pm

Pentagon spending $10 million a day fighting ISIS: Hagel

National Security

Pentagon spending $10 million a day fighting ISIS: Hagel

Charles Hoskinson · September 26, 2014 7:16 pm

Burdensome federal regulations cost Americans at least $1.88 trillion annually, and that doesn't include the impact of President Obama's "pen and phone" rule making.Â (AP Photo)

Washington Secrets

Federal regs cost $1.88 trillion, more with Obama’s ‘pen and phone’ rules

Paul Bedard · September 26, 2014 4:24 pm

US consumer sentiment index reaches 14-month high

US consumer sentiment index reaches 14-month high

Christopher Rugaber · September 26, 2014 3:25 pm

In this July 9, 2013 photo, a Canadian flag flies at BlackBerry's headquarters in Waterloo, Ontario. BlackBerry posted a loss of $207 million in the second quarter on Friday, Sept. 26, 2014, just days after the embattled company launched a new phone. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Geoff Robins)

BlackBerry posts smaller $207M quarterly loss

Washington Examiner · September 26, 2014 3:09 pm

Fifty-six percent of Americans now believe the country's economic and political systems are stacked against them -- the highest number in 22 years, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. (iStock Photo)

Earmarks never went away — they changed addresses

Sarah Bedford · September 26, 2014 9:00 am