Over-Budget Contract Could Stall 2010 Census
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A $600 million program to buy handheld devices and create an automated network to collect data for the 2010 Census faces major cost overruns and could cause delays in preparing for the nationwide head count.
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Hundreds of thousands of families may lose their tax credits if they do not submit their renewal forms this week.
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An unexpected $10 million congressional earmark might seem like money from heaven for a fast-growing county needing billions for transportation improvements. Not when it comes to Coconut Road.
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By Aliana Ramos, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Jan. 31--GEORGETOWN -- A new cap on property values could make funding future capital projects in Georgetown County more difficult by limiting tax revenue, officials said.
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The U.S. Senate&#39;s top budget  overseers on Tuesday joined forces to tackle escalating costs  of retirement and health care programs they say threaten to  bankrupt the government, but they would wait until after next  year&#39;s elections for recommendations to be made public.
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Even if President Bush could snap his fingers and magically &quot;fix&quot; Social Security tomorrow morning, the nation would still be facing a fiscal crisis.
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If you really want to get discouraged about the prospects for property tax relief, consider the numbers as the state closes the books on what is turning out to be a banner year for taxes, if not taxpayers.
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The looming political battle over how to reform the tangled U.S. income tax code could get ugly. But one option, a tax aimed at boosting savings, holds promise.
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By Serdar Tumgoren, The Dispatch, Gilroy, Calif.  Dec. 14--GILROY -- Developers, landowners and South County officials have  convinced a regional land-use agency to delay a policy that could limit the  growth of Gilroy and Morgan Hill.
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A new national survey is expected to reveal that efforts to end chronic homelessness in the US by 2011 are behind schedule.
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The U.S. government is at risk of squandering significantly more money in an Iraq war and reconstruction effort that has already wasted or otherwise overcharged taxpayers billions of dollars, federal investigators said Thursday.
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By MATTHEW DALY  WASHINGTON - An Oregon senator is threatening to filibuster a must-pass spending bill if Congress does not extend payments to rural counties hurt by cutbacks in federal logging.
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As Democrats and Republicans disagreed on the accomplishments of the 108th Congress, one thing is certain: Hundreds of programs &#151; from highway building to welfare reform &#151; are being kept on life support through temporary measures because lawmakers failed to meet deadline after deadline for renewing them.
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House Republican leaders were forced yesterday to summon lawmakers back into session next month to quell an uproar over a belatedly discovered provision in a huge spending bill that would have
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One budget-cutting proposal on the table
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The fate of $600-$1,200 rebate checks for more than 100 million Americans is in limbo after Senate Republicans blocked a bid by Democrats to add $44 billion in help for the elderly, disabled veterans, the unemployed and businesses to the House-passed economic aid package.
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A plan to tighten U.S. borders by requiring passports or tamper-resistant identification cards from everyone entering the country has been delayed.