by Libby Berry | Jan 24, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The mission of the Congressional Budget Office would be “degraded” if the funding arrangement that ended the recent government shutdown remains in force for the rest of the year, CBO Director Keith Hall testified Wednesday. Speaking at a Senate oversight...
by Maggie Harden | Jan 24, 2018 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON – The recently passed federal tax bill is one of the most significant tax code rewrites in U.S. history, according to Laura Wheeler, a senior fiscal researcher at Georgia State University. Wheeler and four other tax experts, speaking Wednesday at the Urban...
by Kristina Karisch | Jan 24, 2018 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON — American senior citizens are lacking the crucial information they need to navigate crucial healthcare benefits, experts said at a Senate hearing on Wednesday. “People’s lives are changing, and they need to be educated or they will fall through the...
by Syd Stone | Jan 23, 2018 | Featured, Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON—Young immigrants known as “dreamers” expressed their disappointment with the Senate Democrats’ actions to end the government shutdown Tuesday. Several dozen activists from Make the Road Pennsylvania and “dreamers” who receive protection...
by Jakob Lazzaro | Jan 23, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration isn’t doing enough to combat the threat that Russian interference poses to Western democracies, to NATO and especially to the United States, former Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday. “I don’t know of any system-wide...
by Priyanka Godbole & Caroline Vakil | Jan 23, 2018 | Featured, Politics, Topics
% of Americans believe the news media plays a critical or very important role in our democracy % of Americans say they can think of a news source that reports the news objectively of Democrats have a favorable opinion of the news media 54% 54% of Republicans have an...
by Renzo Downey | Jan 23, 2018 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON—Rail transportation and other mass transit are particularly vulnerable to terrorist attacks, yet President Donald Trump has proposed cutting the surface transportation security budget in half, a member of a Senate subcommittee...
by Catherine Kim | Jan 23, 2018 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON –– Experts lambasted Trump’s plans for nuclear warfare strategy, leaked earlier this month, during a Tuesday event here sponsored by the Arms Control Association. The plans, described in a draft of the Nuclear Posture Review, are an...
by Erica Snow | Jan 23, 2018 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON—The number of anti-Muslim hate groups and crimes in the United States have increased dramatically in recent years, experts told reporters in a conference call. Organized by legal and educational group Muslim Advocates, the call highlighted the one-year...
by Anna Laffrey | Jan 23, 2018 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON — Mayors worry that high prices and scarcity in housing will cause people to move out of their cities, according to a survey of over 100 mayors across the country released Thursday. Half of the mayors surveyed – 51 percent — cited housing costs...
by Rachel Frazin | Jan 20, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – On the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, thousands of women, joined by many men, marched from the Lincoln Memorial area to the White House on Saturday to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the 2017 Women’s March, which was...
by Jakob Lazzaro, Eric Miller & Caroline Vakil | Jan 18, 2018 | Featured, Politics
CORAOPOLIS, Pa. — President Donald Trump touted his tax plan as boosting Americans’ paychecks and praised Republican congressional candidate Rick Saccone Thursday during a speech at a manufacturing company outside of Pittsburgh. Calling Saccone a...
