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Briefing Who are the '47 percent'?
Half don't earn enough to pay federal income taxes; many pay other ways.
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Social Security proposal from Obama: How would it affect you?
'Chained CPI,' a leading idea for how to keep Social Security solvent for the decades ahead, is part of President Obama's budget proposal. Here's what it would mean for benefits.
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Briefing Who are the '47 percent'?
Half don't earn enough to pay federal income taxes; many pay other ways.
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Mitt Romney video fact check: Is 47 percent of US 'dependent' on government?
In a secret video of a May fundraiser, Mitt Romney says 47 percent of Americans 'are dependent upon government.' One analysis suggests he might have gotten his numbers crossed.
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Health-care insurance: Coverage expands as law kicks in
Health-care insurance covered an extra 1.3 million Americans last year, according to new census data. US posts first improvement in health-care insurance since 2007.
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US incomes fall to 1989 levels. How did that happen?
A Census report signals that for much of America, the economic downturn has produced not one lost decade but two. But the data also show that federal safety-net programs helped keep people out of poverty.
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Absent a super committee, now who'll lean on Congress to cut US deficit?
Global markets or deadlines for extending tax breaks may yet force Congress to try again for a 'grand bargain' to shrink the US deficit. But big action before the 2012 election is unlikely.
11/29/2011 10:33 am -
Balanced budget amendment falls 23 votes short in House
The House's bid to pass a balanced budget amendment failed to get the two-thirds majority it needed to proceed. All but four Republicans voted to make federal deficits unconstitutional.
11/18/2011 05:19 pm -
US adds 3.8 million more to ranks of the poor as poverty rate jumps
US poverty rate hit 14.3 percent last year, up from 13.2 percent in 2008. The jump bring the number of the poor to its highest level since 1959, five years before the Johnson-era War on Poverty.
09/16/2010 05:33 pm -
Medicare fund might last 12 years longer than previously thought
Medicare is in better shape because of President Barack Obama's sweeping health care overhaul.
08/06/2010 10:36 am -
Healthcare reform hangs on cinching the cost to taxpayers
Latest effort to lower the federal price tag taps companies that don't offer health insurance to employees. They would pay an annual fee.
07/03/2009 01:00 am -
Why healthcare reform is still alive, despite initial cost estimates
Dire pronouncements aside, the process is just getting started, with legislation at a formative stage and Obama yet to offer his plan.
06/23/2009 01:00 am -
Undaunted by the economy, Obama presses ahead on healthcare reform
His introduction of Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D) for secretary of health and human services marks an attempt to press for reforms even amid the economic crisis.
03/02/2009 12:00 am -
Obama’s deficit promise won’t be easy to keep
A likely topic in his address Tuesday, the long-term budget gap is largely caused by popular entitlement programs.
02/24/2009 12:00 am -
Will pocketbooks pick the president?
Big edge for Obama if the economy – statistically sour – motivates voters, say modelers.
09/02/2008 01:00 am -
Congress in no rush to fix Medicare and Social Security
A new report projects a $42.9 trillion shortfall for the two entitlement programs over the next 75 years.
03/27/2008 01:00 am
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