Budget

The result of the government shutdown could be catastrophic or the political epiphany this country needs. Here are some possible outcomes.

In the current federal budget political context, unnecessary Pentagon spending destroys American jobs.

We are smack dab in the middle of the most irrational, damaging, stupid, reckless, feckless fundraising drive in the history of currency.

Republicans are playing a trick on people with the negotiations over the budget and threats to shut down the government.

This is big money using money to influence the government to give them even more money.

The media routinely fail in their responsibility to report budget numbers in ways that are understandable.

One can only wish that Congress would go to bat for kids with disabilities in the same way it has for airplanes.

Racial stereotypes and the ‘politics of respectability’ have politicized and deeply undermined the very concept of society's collective responsibility to care for the less fortunate.

A new study proves that economists Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff have been misleading the American people as far as austerity cuts.

Participatory budgeting (PB) transfers decision-making power from elected officials to everyday people.