With the U.S. government apparently getting into the auto business, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is reminding taxpayers that they “may” be eligible for a nice tax break on new ... Read More

With the January raises for government employees out of the way, personal income in the U.S. dropped by 29.1 billion, and disposable personal income -- the amount of money available ... Read More

The Obama Administration has made a commitment to help troubled homeowners. As part of fulfilling that commitment, a new web site from the Treasury Department and the Department of Housing ... Read More

President Obama’s first Presidential Budget Proposal is in the hands of Congress and the fight over the Fiscal Year 2010 federal budget is under way. Focused on creating and saving ... Read More

You’ve probably heard the sermon before, but now the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has confirmed that most Americans consume more than twice their daily recommended level of salt (sodium) ... Read More

Total US contributions to organizations supplying assistance to Iraqis still displaced because of the war has already exceeded $150 million during fiscal year 2009, the State Department announced last week. ... Read More

A bill just introduced by Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Maryland), would allow newspapers to operate as tax-exempt, non-profit organizations under federal tax laws. Cardin hopes his bill will help stem the ... Read More

Love animals? Need a job or considering a career change? Then training to become a veterinarian might be for you, as the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports that a growing ... Read More

Finding “no signs of economic recovery in sight,” the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) jumped on the national morass-mobile on March 20 by announcing plans to lay off more than 1,400 ... Read More

If giving up raises is good for AIG, it should be good for members of the U.S. Congress. So says Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin), in urging his fellow lawmakers to ... Read More

For six-years, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) toiled on long-range, comprehensive plan for the Lake Umbagog National Wildlife Refuge in northern New Hampshire and Maine. That plan, announced ... Read More

"Stop-loss," the unpopular U.S. Army practice of forcing soldiers to remain in military service beyond the end of their enlistment period, will be phased out and ended completely by the ... Read More

Oh, how I shudder when I recall the days of doing taxes without e-file. Once again, the IRS reports a record number of Americans have filed their federal tax returns ... Read More

In these days of global terrorism, or any other days for that matter, you just shouldn't be able to get a U.S. passport using the identity of a man who ... Read More

The U.S. military has made its last and final payment to members of the Iraqi civilian security militia known as the “Sons of Iraq,” according to the Department of Defense ... Read More

People who live in Utah are the happiest folks in America, while people who live in West Virginia are the unhappiest, according to the latest Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index. The ... Read More

Calling it an unacceptable “hazard to public health,” President Obama on Saturday vowed to upgrade the aging and underfunded U.S. food safety inspection system, and appointed a brand new Food ... Read More

In a court filing on the Guantanamo detainee case, the Department of Justice announced that the Obama Administration had dropped the use of the term “enemy combatant” and will no ... Read More

Here comes the money, educators. The U.S. Department of Education has announced it will distribute an initial $44 billion chunk of economic stimulus funding within the next 30 to 45 ... Read More

Under an executive order issued by President Obama, the newly created White House Council on Women and Girls will work to ensure that all Cabinet and Cabinet-level federal agencies consider ... Read More

The New York Times has published a great map graphically charting the damage of the train wreck formerly known as the U.S. economy. The Times’ map The Geography of a ... Read More

Ready for a little happy news? In the last year alone, the Child Blindness Program of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) reported helping more than one million ... Read More

Ongoing computer problems and untested methods of counting our heads continue to threaten the accuracy of the 2010 decennial census, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO). That’s not ... Read More

College students who don't consider fearing for their lives while huddled in barricaded hotel rooms a "good time," might want to consider ruling out Mexico as their Spring Break destination ... Read More

The interior walls of new homes in as many as 25 states could simply fall apart, according to a Florida congressman who has demanded a federal investigation of what he ... Read More

Victims of Ponzi schemes, like the one run by Bernard Madoff, paid federal and state taxes on the money they only thought they were making from the bogus investments. To ... Read More

Abusive interest rates of as much as 650 percent charged for “payday loans” would be outlawed by a just-introduced bill capping annual interest rates for consumer credit at 36 percent. ... Read More

Despite the deepening recession, soaring unemployment and that nationwide "ugh" feeling, personal income in the U.S. rose by $44.8 billion and disposable personal income -- the amount of money available ... Read More

It doesn’t have a holodeck… yet, but the International Space Station will be getting a new cupola and NASA wants you to help name it. Through March 20, the ... Read More

Citizens of the District of Columbia stand as close as they have ever stood to being represented in the U.S. Congress by a member who can actually vote. On ... Read More