President Obama’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform couldn’t get enough of its members to approve its own recommendations or to find the 14 votes needed to send its proposal to Congress. But don’t count ou…
As health-care costs skyrocket, the ranks of uninsured Americans are growing at their fastest rate ever. A new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds that 50.7 million people, or 16.7% of the population, h…
While most people support extending at least some of the George W. Bush-era tax cuts due to expire this year, a new Gallup/USA Today survey finds that Americans are deeply divided on which cuts should continue — and for how lo…
House Republicans thwarted an expedited effort by Democrats to extend jobless benefits into next year. It cleared by 258-154 but failed to meet the two-thirds majority needed for “fast-track” passage. Two million Americans coul…
Citigroup Inc (C) said it may have to refile thousands of foreclosure affidavits.
The bank is reviewing 10,000 affidavits executed before the company overhauled its foreclosure operation in February, Harold Lewis, a managing director with CitiMortgag…