An array of charts buried in the fine print of the state budget, unknown to all but a few fiscal nerds, details what ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Department of Legislative Services chart shows the worsening state budget deficits in coming years. (Chart courtesy Department ...

The U.S. government spent $173 billion more than it collected in revenues in November. But as bad as that sounds and is, it is nevertheless better than the $193 billion deficit posted in October and ...

Financial markets are increasingly fixated on Washington's red ink, but the bigger risk may not be the deficits themselves so much as how abruptly politicians try to erase them. A rapid, poorly ...

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office's 10-year outlook projects worsening long-term federal deficits and rising debt, driven largely by increased spending, notably on Social Security, Medicare, ...