Government Spending

One state arts agency barely escapes extinction, while another returns to life.

Researchers looking at federal government spending on states discover that having a powerful, long-tenured legislator in D.C. actually hurts the local economy.

An experiment demonstrates the death by a thousand cuts that could result from across-the-board cuts that would follow a deadline fumble by the U.S. deficit "super committee."

A new report finds that Washington's recent — but still limited — interest in rigorously evaluating government programs is both encouraging and unprecedented.

As the U.S. Congress prepares to weigh a new round of massive budget cuts mandated by this summer's deal on the deficit, some odd bedfellows offer a suite of suggestions for saving green by being green.

If Americans saw exactly how their specific tax dollars were being allocated, would it change the substance or tenor of discussions on, say, the debt ceiling?

Before the ideological war over entitlement reform begins, Congress should look to the ways technology can reduce the cost of government. All trillion of them.

The U.S. government's deficit was created piece by billion-dollar piece. The bipartisan debt commission's suggestions offer specific incremental steps to reverse that process.

On-again, off-again federal support cripples emerging industries in the United States, America's pre-eminent wind energy pioneer believes.

The gushing effluvia of spreadsheets and thick reports that flow from government are dissected, reconstituted and displayed by a dedicated band of coders.

Two economists say increased public health spending may lower suicide rates. But how?