IA: Highway 'Fiscal Cliff' Threatens Projects

Speaker John Boehner and other House GOP leaders recently proposed a novel way to avert the bankruptcy of the federal highway construction program this summer: End most Saturday deliveries by the financially troubled U.S. Postal Service and use the ...

The calculations underlying Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak's plan to create a million jobs is drawing heavy flak from economists. The Tories contend that if they form the next provincial government, their nine-point economic ...

"From the President's Fiscal Commission to the fiscal cliff, debate around changes to Social Security played a prominent role in the 'grand bargain' budget negotiations and shaped policy discussions in Washington The study finds the following ...

Both a gas tax and a mileage tax are being proposed as solutions to the latest fiscal cliff faced by the federal government when the Highway Trust Fund runs out of money this summer. But would the average American be outraged at such a suggestion ...

The US dollar is worth more now than at any time since last October's republican driven government shutdown and "fiscal cliff" debacle. The GOP has done it's best to stagnate and destroy any economic recovery, but the economy has been on a long, ...

By Deirdre Griswold January 7, 2013 On the day that the country was supposed to fall over the fiscal cliff, Congress finally voted for a bill on taxes and other measures that kept the government solvent for another two months. The Obama ...

at 10:18 am EST Click Ticker to See live coverage Cliffs Natural Resources ( CLF ) reported its second quarter of fiscal 14 (2QFY14) results on July 23 in afterhours trading. The reported revenues of $1.1 billion missed estimates by $0.7 ...

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Washington's failure to contain entitlement spending is biting into the nation's long-term fiscal outlook, the Congressional Budget Office warned in a Tuesday report that found the nation's debt would jump to 106 percent of gross domestic product ...