Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) are from different parties and different regions but they share a belief that moving the federal budget to a two-year process would lead to a more strategic and thoughtful result than the…
A halt in small business loans, lost tourism to national parks, and even a delay in the Alaskan crab season were among the costly effects of last month’s government shutdown, according to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).An OMB…
A cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will increase Social Security benefits by 1.5 percent in January, resulting in an average monthly raise of $19 for millions of disabled and retired workers.The adjustment, announced last week by the Social Security administration, is based…
At a luncheon this month in Jackson, Wyoming, former U.S. senator Alan Simpson left no one in doubt about how important he believes it is to fix the federal debt.Nor did Simpson – who co-chaired the National Commission on Fiscal…
