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Advance Child Tax Credit payments issued by the IRS reached around 35 million families in the U.S. on Thursday.

The Congressional Budget Office is projecting that this year's deficit will total a slightly smaller $3 trillion.

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The IRS advises those who expect their total tax owed will be higher than their tax refund next year may want to opt out of advance Child Tax Credit payments.

The City Council voted to slash the police budget by $17.4 million as violent crime continues to surge in the city.

The Biden administration should reject attempts to use China to keep every Pentagon program fed.

The plan would not create a statewide guaranteed income program but instead would help pay for local governments to start their own initiatives to target low-income families.

The recovery plan proposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom expands California's Golden State Stimulus payments to include middle class families.

Governor Gavin Newsom announced a proposal to expand stimulus checks to more than 65 percent of Californians.

It's a vicious circle the U.S. has yet to escape: more defense spending tempts over-extension around the world, which in turn is used to justify even higher defense budgets in the future.

President Joe Biden has talked the talk about pushing back on Chinese aggression, but the real marker of whether his administration is serious about competition with China will be its proposed defense budget.

At a time when the world needed collaboration across borders to control the pandemic, U.S. militarism led to the opposite.

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Rep. Ro Khanna is among those who have hit back at the Congressional Budget Office report on the impact of a higher minimum wage.

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Most members of the Seattle City Council had pledged to reduce the Seattle Police Department's funding by 50 percent over the summer.

Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves said the push to move America in a socialist or communist direction was concerning and students should be taught what makes America the "greatest place on Earth."

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warned on Wednesday: "We're on the brink of a fall that could be much worse than the spring."

The $3 trillion deficit between October and August, worsened by coronavirus relief spending, more than doubles the previous all-time high shortfall of $1.37 trillion set in 2009.

The treasury secretary said the national debt won't be dealt with until after the COVID-19 pandemic.

The decision from the Pentagon to close the paper down comes shortly after a "Military Times" poll that showed Trump's popularity with the troops has declined.

As the inheritor of Trump's erratic foreign policy, Biden must not accept a mangled status quo; he will need to make a sharp break left.

Self-control is a must to effectively tackle debt.

The expected Democratic presidential nominee famously rode the train to work for 30 years while working as a senator.

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In March 2020, Congress introduced stop on student loan repayments, but that program is scheduled to expire on September 30, 2020. Currently, many Americans remain unemployed, and many more have accepted lower wages and reduced hours. Here's how you can plan ahead for the inevitable.

It's about time you get the household budget under control. Start by negotiating bills and subscription plans to lower monthly expenses.