Economy

by Mark Silva The $787-billion economic stimulus act that Congress approved in February at the urging of President Barack Obama has helped "change the trajectory'' of the nation's economy, White House economic adviser Christina Romer said today, and the...

by Jim Tankersley With Americans so worried about the struggling economy and Congress prepping for a host of major legislative battles this year, President Barack Obama should scale back his health-care reform push and settle for a smaller, bipartisan...

By James Oliphant A wave of bleak news about the stagnant economy promises to give opponents of President Obama's expansive domestic agenda more ammunition to argue that this is an inopportune time to enact overhauls of the nation's health-care and......

What happens when a state whose economy is predicated on never-ending growth starts to shrink? You land on the front page of the Sunday New York Times. So there we were, Broward County and Hollywood used as the pegs for......

Facing growing budget deficits and needing to slash costs, Palm Beach County commissioners plan to ??? hire a consultant, of course. Commissioners agreed to bring in a ???facilitator??? to help guide them through an upcoming budget meeting aimed at...

by Mark Silva One curious contretempts of the stimulus debate is the conflict between Sen. John McCain, the losing Republican nominee for president, and President Barack Obama, the winner of an electoral landslide in an election which Obama portrayed as.....

Palm Beach County commissioners tonight take their final vote on a $4 billion budget plan that would increase property tax rates 15 percent. The county blames the need for a tax rate increase on a drop in tax revenue stemming......

by Christi Parsons and updated NEW YORK -- President Obama this morning issued an appeal to world leaders to help avert "an irreversible catastrophe" in the earth's climate, accepting a portion of blame for global warming on behalf of the......

by Frank James Heather Boushey, an economist at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, has dug through today's employment report for January, with its 598,000 lost jobs and 7.6 percent unemployment rate. She sees no light at......

by Frank James Senate Republicans may've lost the battle on the economic stimulus legislation the Senate passed today but they indicated that the war continues. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Senate Minority Leader, warned that the amount of spending the...

by William Neikirk More than three months after President Barack Obama's election, Congress is finally getting around to passing a massive stimulus package to save the U.S. economy. In all the dispute and political maneuvering in Congress, one idea is.......

by James Oliphant and Janet Hook Just about anyone connected with the $789 billion economic stimulus bill has agreed that it won't begin to fix the nation's broken economy over night. But just how soon can Americans begin to feel......