For too long now we have watched as the national discourse has taken a divisive turn. Bipartisanship is endangered, “compromise” a dirty word. This has made dealing with key challenges all the more difficult, including our nation’s unsustainable fiscal path. …
Some Republicans fear a tea party-like backlash against the trillions of dollars in spending Congress approved, said Robert L. Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition, a deficit watchdog group. “I just think that they are very much afraid that…
More than two months after House Democrats passed their version of the next installment of pandemic relief for struggling Americans (H.R.6800, the HEROES Act), Senate Republicans and Trump administration officials finally joined the debate and introduced their own: The Heath,…
The Labor Department released new data today on initial unemployment claims by laid-off workers. For the week ending July 11, new claims dropped 10,000 to 1.3 million, extending the downward trend from the peak of 6.9 million in late March. Continuing…
