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This weekend at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Phoenix Awards Dinner and on CBS’s 60 “Minutes,” President Barack Obama touted the economic recovery in the…

WASHINGTON — Bullish yet wary, President Barack Obama is highlighting recent economic bright spots while taking care not to overstate a recovery that still has not put millions back to work. SEE ALSO: Outrages Of The Year His Republican rivals, in the face of late-arriving economic good news, are making slight adjustments themselves, arguing that […]

A majority of Americans prefer cutting the deficit to increasing government spending as a way to improve the tough economy and believe a more balanced budget would help create jobs, a Reuters Ipsos poll showed on Tuesday.

Democrats are poised to pass a bill today that will provide $26 billion in additional funding to help states cover Medicaid expenses and teacher salaries. To pay for the bill, however, they are accelerating the scale-back of food stamp payments — at a time when a record number of Americans are relying on food stamps.