It’s time to start thinking about the constitutional ideals that can put the nation’s finances on sound footing.
Tens of thousands of recently arrived refugees might lose support for basic necessities like food and rent after a Trump administration order suspended federal funding for
Washington has joined 21 other states in a lawsuit seeking to block the federal government from freezing billions in federal funding of an array of state programs including ones centered on education,
The current minimum in Arkansas is $14.83 an hour, more than the state minimum of $11 and the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour. Host farmers also pay the visa application fees, which can run over $300, and must provide housing and transportation for the temporary workers.
Chicago has been one of Trump’s favorite targets. The city has some of the strongest sanctuary protections, which bar cooperation between city police and immigration agents.
Here are five economic forces that could shape the first year of Trump's presidency: Whipping inflation is easier said than done.
The first Trump administration's strategy caused a "brain drain" and a generational blow to American agricultural research. And Trump’s not finished.
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) is not, in the scheme of things, a big part of the federal government. It dispersed $43.8 billion in the last fiscal year. That adds up to just 0.7 percent of the $6.1 trillion federal budget. USAID isn’t even a full Cabinet agency, but a subset of the State Department.
Well over half” of Arkansas’ row-crop producers rely on a federal migration program to fill jobs on their farms, according to John McMinn, an Arkansas Farm Bureau commodity and economics specialist
The Internal Revenue Service officially opened the 2025 tax filing season Tuesday, beginning the process of accepting and reviewing individual federal tax returns for the 2024 tax year. By early morning,
After all, the federal government isn’t funded until the end of this fiscal year. Spending will run out in mid-March, and lawmakers will have to pass another stopgap bill to keep agencies open. Employees who joined the resignation program could be left in the lurch.
Increasing construction costs and falling gas tax revenue have blown a billion dollar hole in the Washington state transportation budget, forcing lawmakers to put more money toward projects once promised as fully funded and warning that other projects may be left half built.