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The Obama administration will be known for its many initiatives between the Affordable Care Act, the Iran deal, and his immigration executive actions, the president will leave office with an ambitious array of policy undertakings. The current presidential election definitively reflects the mood of the nation angry, almost spiteful.
Good news: Congress and the White House agreed to a provision permanently banning taxes on Internet access earlier this year. The bad news? As part of the compromise, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell The Internet is no place for a sales tax Reid vows to tie Senate GOP to Trump's rhetoric The Hill's 12:30 Report MORE promised the Senate this year would hold a vote on a different sort of Internet tax: sales taxes on online shopping.
In a speech in Elkhart, ., on Wednesday, Obama followed Hillary Clinton and bowed to a Bernie Sanders-led movement to expand Social Security. This is only the latest in a series of missed opportunities by the president.
Morgan Bettes, a Bradenton, Fla., music promoter, has a small business and doesn't anticipate much help from the government. She's interested in the election, but doesn't see how it'll benefit her very much.
One of the nation's largest multi-employer pension funds said that it is out of ideas for ways to save itself from an impending failure. After the Treasury Department rejected its Hail Mary proposal, which would have substantially cut benefits for some retirees, the Central States Pension Fund has little choice but to turn to a federal insurance program that is supposed to offer a lifeline to troubled pension funds.
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On Memorial Day, we remember the many men and women who lost their lives while in defense of our freedoms and security. For those servicemen and women who come home, the challenges can be daunting.
If you are closing in on retirement age, you are keenly interested in how the three remaining Presidential candidates - Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders - plan to deal with the fiscal challenges of Social Security and Medicare . If you are not close to retirement age, you should be even more interested, as the long-term stability of both programs could be at stake in this election.
The government is squandering its technology budget maintaining museum-ready computer systems in critical areas from nuclear weapons to Social Security. They're still using floppy disks at the Pentagon.
With Donald Trump unopposed on the Republican side, New Jersey Democrats will cast some of the season's last votes on a contested presidential nomination on June 7. As the Editorial Board detailed before the Pennsylvania primary, despite the enthusiasm generated by Bernie Sanders, HILLARY CLINTON is better prepared for the office. South Jersey Democrats will also decide three congressional nominations.
Taking Social Security benefits early comes with a price, yet more than 4 in 10 Americans who are 50 and over say they'll dip into the program before reaching full retirement age. An Associated Press- NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found that 44 percent report Social Security will be their biggest source of income during their retirement years.
A Democratic New York congressman says Donald Trump is "a small man" for accepting $150,000 from a federal fund for small businesses hurt by the Sept. 11 attacks.
The offices of the International Association of Theater and Screen Employees were the opening media event site for Ohio Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Ted Strickland's three-day sojourn around Ohio to contrast his agenda with incumbent Republican Sen. Rob Portman's, especially on issues including economic fairness and getting earned pay for overtime work. Wednesday's media event featuring Ted Strickland speaking to a small group about wealth disparities and pay for work was dubbed the "You Work It, You Earn It" Tour.
IT IS not the "unknown unknowns" that catch people out, but the truths they hold to be self-evident that turn out to be completely wrong. On many issues, the gap between public perceptions and reality is very wide.
A suburban Republican lawmaker wants to prevent Lt. Joe Gliniewicz's widow of receiving benefits from her late husband's police pension if she's eventually convicted of wrongdoing.
COLUMBUS, Ohio-Two labor groups have announced they are launching modest ad campaigns in Ohio against Republican U.S. Sen. Rob Portman. One television ad from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees' PAC, hits Portman for his support of free trade.
Congressional investigators say the government spends about three-fourths of its technology budget maintaining aging co... . FILE - In this May 17, 2016 file photo, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Lawsuits against 16 of the world's largest banks alleging they colluded to manipulate the primary benchmark for global short-term interest rates have been reinstated by a federal appeals court that found Monday that a judge had rejected the litigation too quickly.
A massive $1.27 billion penalty that was imposed on Bank of America in 2014 over mortgage loans it sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has been overturned by an appeals court. Reuters reports : The Justice Department claimed Countrywide, which Bank of America bought in July 2008, defrauded government-sponsored mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by selling them thousands of toxic loans.
Vacant-housing demolition took up 90 percent of Ohio's request, but critics say asking for more mortgage-assistance funds would have ensured the entire application was viewed more favorably by the federal government. As the days passed, Ohio's application for upward of $250 million in federal housing money asked for more of the money to be devoted to vacant-housing demolition and less for mortgage assistance.