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Under that assumption, the JCT reported this weekend that the tax portions of the Republican megabill would cost just $442 billion over 10 years — a huge drop from the previous estimate, which ...

* Tweaks to the phaseout of clean energy tax credits. The Senate plan reportedly would allow more projects to take advantage ...

The Clinton era of the 1990s is remembered as a prosperous time punctuated by a series of scandals.Today, we tend to dismiss these scandals as irrelevant because they mostly involved sex, were ...

Western North Dakota is the center of a major oil boom and has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country. Here are the highest-paying jobs in the area.

“He was amazing. I met him when he was a first year law student,” said Tribe, referring to what would have been the fall of 1988. “This kid comes in wearing jeans and a sweatshirt – lanky ...

To compile this Fiscal Health Index, we looked at 116 U.S. cities with populations greater than 200,000, using data from 2015 financial reports issued by the cities themselves.

President Biden downplayed the likelihood of a recession in an interview with the Associated Press last week, and he repeated the point over the holiday weekend, citing a notable former Treasury ...

Worries about rising debt: Asked about the Congressional Budget Office projection that the legislation would increase the national debt by about $3 trillion over 10 years, 63% of Americans ...

Before the smoke turned white at the Vatican on March 13, 2013, people who knew Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the ...

Opinions about tax policy are divided in the U.S. along fairly predictable partisan lines, with Republicans typically expressing preferences for lower taxes compared to Democrats, but how do those ...

When Congress returns from the summer recess next month, they’ll have just a few weeks to fund the government past the end of September and avoid a shutdown of federal agencies.