Government And Institutions

Patients face ever-growing exposure to the cost of revolutionary new medications.

Gov. Charlie Baker is eyeing capital gains tax revenues to help close an estimated $765 million budget gap for the fiscal year that ends June 30.

President Barack Obama calls his tax and spending plan "middle-class economics," but most middle-income families would see little change in their tax bills.

Gov. Paul LePage is back on the campaign trail.

Gogebic Taconite's field explorations for an iron mine just south of Lake Superior have come to standstill as company officials consider redesigning the contentious project in the face of mounting obstacles, the company's lobbyist said Monday.

The two-year operating budget that Gov. John Kasich plans to deliver Monday to state lawmakers will include a package of tax changes that delivers an overall $500 million cut.

Figures on government spending and debt (last six digits are eliminated).

Lawmakers were all smiles Monday when the Nevada Legislature convened its 120-day session despite a leadership struggle that has simmered since the November elections.

With higher taxes on the wealthy and billions in new spending, President Barack Obama's no-balance budget lays down an audacious challenge to Republicans who swept to full control of Congress last fall and now claim a mandate to eliminate deficits over the next decade.

Highlights of proposals in the $4 trillion budget for 2016 that President Barack Obama sends to Congress on Monday: — A six-year, $478 billion public works program for highway, bridge and transit upgrades.

Troubled by consumer complaints and loopholes in state laws, federal regulators are putting together the first-ever rules on payday loans aimed at helping cash-strapped borrowers avoid falling into a cycle of high-rate debt.

With a blend of tax hikes and spending increases, President Barack Obama's budget spells out a policy agenda that will distinguish him from Republicans who now control Congress.

Asian stock markets were mostly lower Monday after Chinese manufacturing weakened and oil went on roller-coaster ride.

Republicans controlling both chambers of Congress have never had a better chance of repealing the tax on medical devices.

It's been a year of relative peace in Washington's budget battles.

World stock markets were uneven Friday and Wall Street futures slid ahead of quarterly growth figures that will show whether weakness in China, Japan and Europe has hit the U.S. economy.

There's a good reason the U.S. economy is impressing the world right now despite a slowdown in the final three months of 2014: In a word, steadiness.

A coalition of health and human services advocates expressed support Friday for the governor's pitch to help struggling Ohioans move out of poverty, though the group had concerns about how the goal would be accomplished.

Mayors of several New Jersey shore towns are joining with members of Congress from the state to oppose allowing oil drilling in the Atlantic Ocean.

Seventy-five years ago Saturday, the government cut 65-year-old Ida May Fuller of Vermont a check for about $22 — the first Social Security payout.