We examined trends in per capita spending for Medicare beneficiaries ages sixty-five and older in the United States in the period 1999–2012 to determine why spending growth has been declining ...

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen talks foreign trade, federal spending cuts and his once-rocky relationship with the president.

Thirty-one states, plus the District of Columbia, received more than they paid in. New Mexico, for example, sent around $12.4 ...

As a share of total spending, welfare spending has risen from 13.4% of state and local budgets at the start of the millennium to 18.8% in 2019. But even on a per capita basis, spending is up nearly ...

Budget hawks have fretted for decades about America’s deficits and debt, repeatedly advising our government to embrace ...

Trump’s signature legislation will push defense spending past $1 trillion, with new funding for innovation and other ...

President Donald Trump has introduced a massive legislation, known as the 'Great and Beautiful Law,' aiming to consolidate ...

As Donald Trump cheered the passage of his self-styled, and officially named, Big Beautiful Budget Bill through Congress this week, long-sown seeds of doubt about the scale and sustainability of US ...

Young adults aged 18 to 24 have the lowest financial literacy rate at 35.2%, highlighting a major gap in early financial ...