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The typical American household would have paid nearly all of its income in taxes last year to balance the budget if the government used standard accounting rules to compute the deficit, a USA TODAY analysis finds. Under those accounting ...
May 24, 2012 at 14:32 | Source: USA Today
A new government report said spending cuts scheduled to go into effect in 2013, coupled with the simultaneous expiration of Bush-era tax cuts, will shrink the U.S. economy and raise unemployment -- contradicting the Republican claim that ...
May 23, 2012 at 15:01 | Source: Huffington Post
OTTAWA -(Dow Jones)- The Canadian government's preliminary fiscal 2012 data indicate the budget deficit was slightly smaller than forecast, the Finance Department said Friday. The department's monthly Fiscal Monitor publication said the budget ...
May 25, 2012 at 15:13 | Source: NASDAQ
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's preliminary budget deficit for 2011-12 came in below forecasts despite big spending in the final month of the fiscal year to compensate the province of Quebec and pay for buy outs for thousands of public service workers.
May 25, 2012 at 15:06 | Source: YAHOO!
PRINCETON, N.J., May 21 (UPI) -- Healthcare, the federal budget deficit and unemployment are the three key economic issues facing the United States today, a Gallup-USA Today poll indicated. More than 80 percent of Americans ranked each issue as ...
May 22, 2012 at 11:28 | Source: United Press International
OTTAWA/TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada on Friday posted a smaller-than-expected budget deficit for 2011-12, giving Finance Minister Jim Flaherty some leeway to react if needed to what he called an "unstable" situation in Europe. In addition to the ...
May 25, 2012 at 19:10 | Source: Reuters Canada
THE HAGUE, May 25 (Reuters) - The Netherlands - facing elections on Sept. 12 in which Europe and the euro will be central themes - is expected to meet its European Union budget deficit target next year thanks to more than 12 billion euros of ...
May 25, 2012 at 14:16 | Source: Reuters
SEATTLE — Pinch-hitter Howie Kendrick broke a tie in the top of the ninth inning with a two-run single off Seattle closer Brandon League, and the Los Angeles Angels rallied from a 4-0 deficit for a 6-4 win over the Mariners on Friday night.
May 26, 2012 at 05:11 | Source: Washington Post
MADRID May 28 (Reuters) - Spain must continue reducing its budget deficit and implementing structural reforms to make its recession-hit economy more competitive, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Monday. Rajoy, speaking at a press ...
May 28, 2012 at 11:14 | Source: Reuters
The budget debate in Washington has become depressingly familiar: On one side, we’ve got people insisting that federal spending has to be slashed because the deficit has become such a terrible load on the economy, and we have to start living ...
May 25, 2012 at 12:43 | Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)