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Defense sector braces for Pentagon cuts
Jeff Tyler Nov 15, 2011
With the super committee looking less and less likely to succeed, defense contractors are planning for the worst: automatic cuts.
Not so super committee
John Dimsdale Nov 14, 2011
A little more than a week before the pre-Thanksgiving deadline for the Congressional super committee to come up with a deficit-cutting deal, and there's still no agreement in sight. Can they really deliver? Or is the super committee a wimpy waste of time?
Gridlock Eraser. Budget Swallower. Debt Silencer.
Chris Roberson Nov 21, 2011
What if the super committee had actual superpowers, like in a comic book?
Social security benefits bump up
Nancy Marshall-Genzer Nov 5, 2011
Social security gets its first adjustment since 2009. The average social security benefit will rise by $516 to $14,748. Is that a meaningful bump?
MID-DAY UPDATE: Obama's budget cuts, protests in Bahrain, and billable hours
Katharine Crnko Feb 14, 2011
President Obama has released his budget proposal for the 2012 federal spending plan. A growing national deficit has prompted the White House to...
Tax Day moves to April 18, IRS ditches paper tax forms
Chris Farrell Jan 31, 2011
No, April 18th isn't a typo. That's the date income tax returns are due this year....
The narrowing of the Social Security do-over
Chris Farrell Jan 12, 2011
Question: I will be 66 next month and plan to continue working until I am 70. I have been thinking of drawing social security and investing it in...
MIDDAY UPDATE: Illinois raises income tax, California's budget, and Haiti -- One year later
Katharine Crnko Jan 12, 2011
Illinois state legislators raised the state income tax from 3 percent to 5 percent, a 66 percent hike. In plain terms, if you owed the Illinois...
Gov't benefits get digitized
Kai Ryssdal Sep 21, 2011
This final note today, from the Marketplace Desk of, well, I guess you gotta draw the line somewhere. The Treasury Department issued new rules...
Social Security: Take it early, on-time, or late
Chris Farrell Dec 7, 2010
Question: I retired a year and a half ago and have been living on a severance payment since then. Sometime in the next few months, as I expected, I...
