LOS ANGELES (CBS) — In a report released Monday, the California State Auditor said the Energy Commission has spent only around half of the $226 million in federal Recovery Act funds given to the state in April 2009. Monday's report was a follow u…

Federal Budget 2012: Stephen Harper says he's looking beyond his mandate when proposing OAS changes Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he is looking… Poll: 50 per cent of Torontonians don't want a casino in city Half of Torontonians don't…

But that successful program will now whither on the vine because funding has been severely cut in the 2012 federal budget. The Recovery Act granted $5 billion for low-income home weatherization and reached 600000 upgrades as of December, 2011, …See a…

By Edward Alden, CFR.org What should Congress and the Obama administration do to bring the federal deficit under control? Well, according to the Congressional Budget Office's annual Budget and Economic Outlook, the answer is quite simple: absolutel…

Harper replied that voters knew the Conservatives if elected would move to reduce the $31 billion federal budget deficit. “We made very clear commitments to the Canadian people. We are balancing our budget,” he said. Human Resources Minister Diane …

“For the fourth year in a row, our federal budget deficit will exceed $1 trillion according to a new report by the Congressional Budget Office. In the report, the CBO tells us that the federal budget 'remains out of balance throughout the decade&…

The day before President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union address, House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan took shots at him and other Democrats over federal budget matters. In a Jan. 23, 2012 news release, the Wisconsin Republican repeated one of…

His speech is titled, "The Economic Outlook and the Federal Budget Situation." The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee has been committed to ramping up accommodative monetary policy with a string of non-standard measures, to the dismay of p…

There was a small surplus in the federal budget in fiscal 1969 – the last time for three decades. Nixon then ran back-to-back deficits in the $23 billion range – unheard of at the time. The Federal Reserve inflated. Gold began to be redeemed by for…

by Robert Pore Congress is focusing too much time and energy on the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline and not enough on reducing the federal deficit, US Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., said Wednesday. "People want Congress to work together and focus l…