government finances

WASHINGTON (TNS) — If you don’t think the interest on the federal debt is a problem, try this quick exercise. Grab your pay stub for June and see how ...

The Congressional Budget Office projects that the federal government will have a budget deficit of $1.9 trillion this year, $400 billion more than was...

NEW YORK (TNS) — At first glance, the policy sounds absurd, especially to many Americans: In Sweden, grandparents are now eligible for government subs...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania lawmakers began grinding through a series of votes Thursday to finalize a budget deal that took nearly two weeks i...

The Bradford Area School District Board of Education passed the budget — with no tax increase — for the 2024-25 school year during its monthly meeting...

DEAR RUSTY: I hope you can give me some information about a question that has come up in my family. My husband is retired and has reached full retirem...

The IRS has appointed a new “taxpayer experience officer,” whose salary is paid by — who else? — taxpayers themselves. The agency hasn’t publicly anno...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Pennsylvania ended the 2023-24 fiscal year with $45.5 billion in General Fund collections, Revenue Secretary Pat Browne reported ea...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s latest school tax credit plan advanced to the Senate floor on Wednesday after a brief committee meeting. The 7-4 party-lin...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Achieving the American dream of homeownership can be tough these days between a shortage of housing stock and the high cost of borr...

HARRISBURG — Treasurer Stacy Garrity announced the launch of the redesigned PA ABLE Savings Program website, paable.gov . The new website, Garrity sai...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — When former President Donald Trump told Senate Republicans last week that he was thinking about replacing the income tax with an “...

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Disabled veterans in Pennsylvania no longer have to claim their monthly benefits as income when applying for state aid programs. Gov. Josh Shapiro sig...

Last year’s natural gas impact fee was the highest on record, but that wasn’t the case for the disbursements announced earlier this week by the Pennsy...

HARRISBURG — From education to housing to economic growth, Republican legislators return to the local and state tax burden as the issue holding back p...

DEAR RUSTY: I don’t understand exactly how the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) works for my situation. I turned 62 in 2017 and am currently still...

Gov. Josh Shapiro and a growing number of legislators from both sides of the aisle are calling for changes to the way cyber charter schools in Pennsyl...

HARRISBURG (AP) — A Democratic-sponsored proposal to boost public school funding by billions in the coming years and impose stricter rules on cyber-ch...

The Biden budget deficit this fiscal year probably will exceed $1.6 trillion. This from a president who has repeatedly tried to pass himself off as a ...