Recent spending cuts to rural safety net programs have some bracing for financial hardship, in light of what they went through during the Great Recession.

That low interest rate period before the pandemic was unusual. We’re probably headed in the other direction.

The nonprofit Partnership for Public Service says DOGE’s firings, rehirings and putting employees on leave have cost as much as $135 billion.

Cutting these jobs indiscriminately will “substantially damage the economy,” experts say.

Government spending is tied up with consumer and business spending. Not reporting it as part of GDP would breach global accounting standards.

Government spending is built into the formula for calculating GDP.

According to both the Constitution and the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, the president does not have the authority to spend or hold back funding Congress has appropriated.

A survey reveals the general public doesn’t always agree with economists on what causes higher prices.

In the debate over the debt and deficit, experts say tax breaks that skew toward the wealthy deserve as close a look as government spending.

They say programs designed to help low-income families are only reaching a fraction of those eligible.