If the government budget follows popular sentiment, education, social security and Medicare are safe. Those are the areas where fewest Americans want to see government spending cuts, according to a Gallup poll released Wednesda…
In his State of the Union address, President Obama didn’t shy away from tackling the ongoing questions about the health care reform law head on. And though he opened with a joke, he made it clear that while he’s serious about r…
Americans’ opinions on the divisive topic are all over the map. A new poll shows more than half of Americans now oppose the law, compared to only 41% who support it. Yet 62% — including 38% of Republicans — actually disapprov…
The government recouped a staggering $4 billion in fiscal 2010 that was stolen from federal health care programs, the departments of Justice and Health and Human Services announced Monday — the highest annual amount ever. More…
It took about 10 years of decisions for the federal budget to get more than a trillion dollars out of whack, and it’s going to take at least five years to balance it again. The only way to do it is piece-by-piece, with equal sa…