Whether the 2025-27 state budget faces a crisis or a challenge depends almost always on the person making the assessment. There probably will not be as much tax money to spend on all policies, ...

And that’s just the tip of the budgetary iceberg. The real problem is that the government’s unfunded liabilities — what the government already owes or has promised citizens — are growing at staggering ...

Chicago Board of Education President Sean Harden has challenged the district’s new proposed budget, expressing doubts about its heavy reliance on revenue from special taxing districts to close a $734 ...

I’m old enough to remember when the GOP railed against the purported “imperial presidency” of Barack Obama — how dare that tyrant try to give Americans health care! — so I never miss an opportunity to ...