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WEBThe Fed gets ready to move: The Friday report set off a new round of speculation about how Federal Reserve officials will react at the meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee in two weeks ...
Why Republicans, Democrats Think Differently About Taxes
WEBAug 18, 2020 · For example, the majority of respondents say they think people who work hard should pay lower taxes. Surprisingly, they also agree that middle-class tax cuts help shrink the federal deficit. While ...
9 Changes to the Constitution – How Would You Change It?
WEBJul 3, 2013 · Advertisement. We last amended the Constitution a generation ago. So much has changed since then. The viral-like spread of the Internet was two years away. Pagers were still gaining in popularity ...
Bill Clinton’s Surplus Miracle, 20 Years Later | The Fiscal Times
WEBJun 22, 2018 · Beside him, a large chart showed a $150 billion surplus projected through 2003. In retrospect, this forecast looks laughable. We were running deficits again by 2002. Twenty years later, the ...
The Debt - The Fiscal Times
WEBThe federal budget deficit was $1.5 trillion in the first 10 months of the 2024 fiscal year, according to an initial estimate released by the Congressional Budget Office released Thursday.
Minimum Wage and What It Buys You: 1950s to Now
WEBApr 4, 2012 · Often looked to as a model era, the 1950s may have been nearly as picture-perfect as Leave it to Beaver seemed to suggest―minimum wage workers could pay rent for a month for less than a week and ...
Trump's Legacy: $7.8 Trillion Rise in Debt | The Fiscal Times
WEBJan 15, 2021 · Why Biden’s Ambitious Covid Relief Plan Could Get Cut in Half President-elect Joe Biden’s plan to "rescue" the American economy proposes $1.9 trillion in federal spending to fund a national ...
The Tax Rates of America's Top Earners | The Fiscal Times
WEBApr 14, 2022 · The Tax Rates of America's Top Earners. Microsoft founder Bill Gates earned an average of $2.85 billion per year between 2013 and 2018, the most in the U.S. for any individual over that period ...
The 10 Most Outrageous Pork Barrel Projects of 2016
WEBApr 14, 2016 · Here are the 10 largest items identified in this year’s edition, all drawn from CAAGW’s database. DDG-51 Arleigh-Burke Class Destroyer. At a cost of $1 billion for a single ship, the demand ...
Pentagon Fails Audit for Sixth Straight Year | The Fiscal Times
WEBNov 17, 2023 · The Pentagon failed its annual financial audit for the sixth straight year, the Defense Department’s chief financial officer announced Wednesday. CFO Michael J. McCord told reporters that the ...