political economy

Rep. Nicholas Langworthy claims the GOP budget “eliminates waste, fraud and abuse” while protecting programs like Medicaid. But the “historic savings”...

The process of crafting and passing legislation has often been compared to sausage-making, insofar as most people enjoy eating sausage, but virtually ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — I’ve often railed at Democrats’ failure to revamp federal immigration law during the two years President Joe Biden enjoyed a Democr...

NEW YORK (TNS) — One of the more remarkable aspects of the MAGA ideology is how often it fulfills the left-wing policy wish list. The latest example i...

Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Legislature’s Democrat majorities may be touting that they’ve finally finished work on a new state budget. Make no mistake, ...

OLEAN — The Common Council is discussing the creation of a special capital fund as a place to put dollars received from the bed tax on the two hotels ...

Elon Musk is reportedly planning to spend less time tending to the budget-cutting DOGE project and more time on his businesses, according to Politico,...

Thank you to state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli for publishing an analysis of the balance of payments between the 50 states and the federal government . T...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Earlier this month, sharp declines in the stock market wiped out $5 trillion in value. Which raises the question: If $5 trillion ca...

Roughly 67 million Americans, most of whom are 65 or older, received Social Security benefits in 2023. An estimated 183 million workers paid the Socia...

If there’s one thing investors have learned in recent days, it’s that there’s no way to guess what America will do next. With its on-again, off-again ...

If the federal government wants to keep Medicare and Social Security intact for the next 75 years, it will need an extra $78.2 trillion in cash that i...

If the federal government wants to keep Medicare and Social Security intact for the next 75 years, it will need an extra $78.2 trillion in cash that i...

OLEAN — A 6.2% tax rate increase to $17.90 per $1,000 of assessed value on a $29,147,462 budget is spelled out in the finalized City of Olean budget t...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Heading into Tax Day, if you listen to progressive policymakers for a few minutes, you’ll likely hear that few problems on Earth ca...

ALBANY — For the last four years, New York’s small businesses have been shouldering the burden of the Empire State’s pandemic-related Unemployment Ins...

President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs are the biggest shock to the global financial and economic order since the end of the Bretton Woods ...

I voted in the election to stop fraud, waste and abuse. I expect our government to run efficiently and I voted for putting Washington on a budget and ...