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President Trump’s increased tariffs will decrease U.S. government deficits by $4 trillion through 2035, according to newly revised projections by the Congressional Budget Office. Phill Swagel ...

The Trump administration has canceled more than 1,800 grants from the National Institutes of Health, and according to a new ...

Trump rages against the numbers: In response to the July report, the president demanded that the head of the Bureau of Labor ...

Views and Analysis Trump's Attacks on the Fed and BLS Threaten Key Source of Economic Strength — Ben Casselman and Colby Smith, New York Times Stormclouds Abound as Economists Gather in Jackson ...

Happy Thursday! It certainly was a happy day for President Trump, who celebrated a New York appeals court decision that tossed out a roughly $527 million civil fraud penalty against him as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Janna Herron, a senior editor for The Fiscal Times based in New York, oversees the Life and Money channel that covers financial issues that touch people and their families. Before spending a year ...

The United States established the Civil Service 142 years ago, in response to the massive corruption that followed from the previous “spoils system” in Washington DC. Prior to that, all ...

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Michael W. Hodin, Ph.D. is executive director of the Global Coalition on Aging, managing partner at High Lantern Group, and a fellow at Oxford University's Harris Manchester College. From 1976 to ...