The U.S. national debt is climbing at a rapid pace and has shown no signs of slowing down despite the growing criticism of massive levels of government spending. The national debt, which measures what ...

The Senate voted on Thursday to pass a bill to create a fast-track process that will allow Democrats to raise the federal debt limit without votes from Republicans, a crucial next step as lawmakers ...

WASHINGTON - The Senate has approved legislation that would create a one-time, fast-track process for raising the debt limit with a simple-majority threshold and avoiding a Republican filibuster — ...

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Student loan debt relief took center stage at the end of June when Supreme Court ruled President Biden’s $400+ billion forgiveness proposal unconstitutional. Defeated but undaunted, President Biden’s ...

This week, I pushed a rare mid-month update to AEI’s Student Debt Forgiveness Tracker (SDFT) on the heels of the Biden Administration’s announcement trumpeting a total of $42 billion in Public Service ...

Interest payments on the nation’s ballooning debt just eclipsed spending on defense and Medicare, worrying policy experts who have warned this threatens to undermine U.S. economic stability. In the ...

A failure by the US government to pay its debts on time would probably cause catastrophic fallout throughout global financial markets. But some are more directly in the firing line than others and ...

Deacon and Kim Hayes are now debt-free with two kids. After Deacon and Kim Hayes tied the knot in 2008, the couple said they wanted to tackle their pile of debt. Between the two of them, the Hayes ...

WASHINGTON - The Senate has approved legislation that would create a one-time, fast-track process for raising the debt limit with a simple-majority threshold and avoiding a Republican filibuster — ...