Low Income

WASHINGTON — Monday may dawn with temperatures in the minus teens across most of upstate New York, but the region's newly elected members of Congress are mum so far about a proposal to end a Federal Program to protect homes against har…

The School Board of Wake County, where the state capital of North Carolina, Raleigh, is located, has been news a lot lately. Even Stephen Colbert used it in his "Word" segment on January 18, mocking the comments of a Board Member, John Tedesco. …

 Abortion politics: House Republicans led by House Speaker John Boehner introduced the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act" (H.R. 3) Thursday. The bill is a high profile Republican anti-abortion effort that, like the Health Care R…

One aspect of the spending-cut proposals outlined by Rep. Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) in his Speech at the Heritage Foundation today is welfare reform. Congressman Jordan’s plan would reign in out-of-control welfare spending, encourage Job Creatio…

Steve Benen looks at the serious thinking being done by the Republican policy shop. The Republican Study Committee has quite a laundry list in mind. These folks actually map out cutting $2.5 Trillion from the Budget without touching Social Secur…

The Republican Study Committee is out with a plan to cut spending today, to the tune of $2.5 Trillion. As Brian Beutler and Megan Carpentier point out, it's mostly the whisper of a promise to cross fingers and hope for the best as the can skitte…

Conservative House members on the Republican Study Committee, chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), have outlined a program they claim can cut $2.5 Trillion in spending over the course of a decade. Like most major Spending Cut proposals, this one's…