Federal unemployment aid for long-term jobless people and gig workers expire in a month. The Centur…

There were 859,000 quits in trade, transportation, and utilities in May 2021. Leisure and hospitali…

"The deal is this - Boehner and I got a lot done, but we didn't mince words," he said. "He was righ…

As Americans enter some of the most challenging weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of economi…

"With no sign of agreement between the President and Congress on most issues, there's one logical r…

This is largely the result of the expiration of the payroll tax holiday which was not extended last…

In an e-mail responding to this article, White House spokeswoman Amy Brundage wrote, "Gene was reit…

[T]hese negotiations amounted to a test of liberalism’s ability to raise revenue, and it isn’t clea…

Basically, current forecasts for discretionary spending are already unrealistically low out into th…

The March 27 mini-cliff has all the hallmarks of a perfect storm. Congress has to work on three sep…

This time, both parties say they want to avert the sequester, the set of $1.2 trillion in across-th…

The outcome is considered negative by forces in both parties, as the military will see deep cuts in…

When Congress extends the current CR, it will either have to alter the CR’s spending rate so that t…

"The only real way to have leverage with the debt ceiling is to convince people that we are not goi…

The findings were similar in a Pew Research Center survey. The poll found that voters gave abysmal …

Q: How does the debt limit relate to other upcoming fiscal debates? A: The debt limit is the mos…

Jason Furman says Republicans made a mistake in assuming the economy would recover on its own witho…

"Right now, there are more than 100,000 active projects paving roads and rebuilding bridges, modern…

The US economy has been on life support since the coronavirus started, and Republicans want to pull…