O N JULY 3RD Congress gave Donald Trump the Independence Day present he wanted: with a vote of 218–214, House Republicans ...

The national debt already exceeds $36 trillion and is growing at historic rates. That has cascading consequences for the ...

The United States owes more than $36 trillion. Washington now spends close to $2 trillion more each year than it collects in revenue, forcing the Treasury Department to borrow to make up the ...

Former Obama economic advisor Jason Furman just dropped a reality check that should have every investor paying attention to ...

I've been known to publish a few charts and graphs on the debt from time to time, ... President Obama has signed $2.4 trillion of debt reduction into law.

More than a quarter of Americans with student debt owed $10,000 or less. Under Biden's student debt relief plan, nearly 20 million borrowers would have their debts zeroed out.

Although debt relief advocates have welcomed Biden’s announcement, ... Here are four charts that show the state of student loan debt in the United States.

If the picture appears bleak for America’s graduates, it is bleaker still for Uncle Sam. Student lending was once profitable for the federal government. Now it loses 25 cents on every dollar lent. All ...

It shows him standing in front of a chart that forecasts a reduction of U.S. debt titled "America: Debt Free by 2013." On Reddit, the photo, posted without context, gained 36,100 upvotes: ...

When it comes to most of the major political disputes in Washington, congressional Republicans insist Democrats focus on reducing the debt Republicans built up during the Bush/Cheney era. It ...

And according to the chart released by the White House Monday, most swing states have received more than a billion dollars in debt relief; Pennsylvania is at $4.9 billion, while Arizona has seen ...