Here's why: In 1969, the federal government changed the way it did accounting. It began to use what was and is called a unified budget that includes trust funds such as social security previously considered off-budget because they were self-sustaining ...

The 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons also triggered changes in Florida. Despite better codes, the 2004 season damaged one in five homes, causing $20 billion in insured losses statewide.

The annual saving of $3.5 million a year is a small fraction of an overall annual cut of $195.2 million the RCMP is expected to make, according to the federal budget. When the budget was tabled in March, the RCMP insisted it would manage the reductions ...

By WILLIAM MARCH | The Tampa Tribune Radio talk show host and conservative political activist Doug Guetzloe of Orlando has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for willfully failing to file federal tax returns, according to an announcement from the US ...

“We saw no new money in the federal budget for training,” Georgetti says. “The government, it seems, would sooner pick on unemployed workers than help to retrain them.

“As the [federal] budget shrinks, that balancing act gets more and more difficult because everybody is trying to get their share of the pie.

This the surprising message in this year's budget statement 4 - otherwise known as Treasury's sermon. The facts and figures that follow come from there.

This the surprising message in this year's budget statement 4 - otherwise known as Treasury's sermon. The facts and figures that follow come from there.

(AFP/Getty Images / March 1, 2012) WASHINGTON - Some Republican lawmakers were outraged when federal records released last week showed that the White House, CIA and Defense Department granted high-level access last year to a pair of acclaimed ...

The latest from KFF shows an even higher average with people surveyed estimating 27% of the federal budget is spent on foreign aid.

When combined, that figure is more than the state's yearly Education budget. As Mr Snelling said the day after the federal Budget: "Tough decisions need to be made when preparing this year's state Budget - nothing is off the table.

By Libby Spencer Mitt Romney is making a lot of wild promises on the campaign trail about how he's going to eliminate the deficit and balance the federal budget. He speaks in broad generalities mostly, but the Center for Budget and and Policy ...

This coming fiscal year, the United States is set to spend more than $640 billion dollars on the Pentagon and war, accounting for more than 60 percent of federal domestic spending. In excess of $85 billion of that will be spent on the war in ...

For many newcomers arriving as refugees, however, the federal government has since the 1950s, recognized that they need some temporary help to pay for medical care, prescription drugs and other aspects of health care.

Leahy noted that when the federal budget implementation bill passes, as it is expected to next month, those applications will be abolished.