“Marketplace’s” Kai Ryssdal visits a low-income district of the tourist mecca, where a federal grant will improve transportation and safety.

Our U.S. debt is bigger than our economic output. Consequences include ballooning interest payments and potential trust issues.

We look back at a moment in U.S. history when the federal government remade its relationship with the economy.

The backbone of Los Angeles’ extensive highway system was built with the aid of FDR’s historic public works program.

There have been about 80 debt ceiling battles since 1960. But those decades of drama have never led to an actual default.

A bipartisan group of Senators is working on a compromise on immigration that would be included in a broader package of aid for Ukraine and Israel.

There’s a hot debate about what it’s doing with its holdings, and the answer could affect how much it costs Americans to borrow money.

The Federal Reserve and major U.S. banks are buying fewer bonds than they used to. Hedge funds are picking up some of the slack.

As the Fed wraps up its two-day meeting, economists are looking to the Treasury Department for details on how the federal government plans to borrow money through the end of the year.

When the central bank makes money, it hands it to the Treasury. But now it’s losing money as it pays interest to banks on their deposits.