Budget

As people continue to struggle with job loss and budgets get tighter, a lot of Americans are really concerned about putting food on the table. Grocery prices across the country have risen since the start of the pandemic — and with many of us still homebound due to COVID-19 and cooking more often, many Americans are spending more on groceries...

You don’t have to break the bank to show someone you care. Sara Skirboll, a shopping expert with RetailMeNot, said people are expected to spend more money on Valentine’s Day gifts this year than last, which could simply mean people are in the frame of mind to celebrate life and love.

You don’t have to break the bank to prove your love.

With the New Year less than two weeks away it’s time to start planning your budget pivot. Here are a few tried and true strategies for getting your financial house in order for 2021.

Lawmakers in Austin are contending with the biggest shortfall the state has ever faced.

Mail could be delayed a day or more under proposed changes suggested by the new postmaster general, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.

The 2020 U.S. Census is required for anyone living in the United States, but there are billions of reasons you’d want to take it: lawmakers use census data to divvy up money for important resources like hospitals, fire stations and roads. Lawmakers will rely on this year’s census data until 2030, so now’s your chance to make sure your household...

Keller ISD’s Board of Trustees unanimously approved a $333 million budget in the general fund for the district’s 2020-2021 fiscal year.

President Donald Trump is offering a $4.8 trillion election-year budget plan that recycles previously rejected cuts to domestic programs to promise a balanced budget in 15 years — all while boosting the military and leaving Social Security and Medicare benefits untouched.

If you think bringing a new human into the world is daunting, wait until you see what he or she will do to your budget. It will cost a middle-income married couple an average of $233,610 to raise a child from birth through age 17, according to 2015 data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In fact, your child is costing...

President Donald Trump has signed off on nearly $1.4 trillion in spending that will keep the government funded through Sept. 30. The spending measures add roughly $400 billion to the deficit over the next decade. They include money for the president’s U.S.-Mexico border fence, pay raises for military and civilian federal workers, and funding for election security grants.

The federal deficit for the 2019 budget year surged to $984.4 billion, its highest point in seven years, and is widely expected to top the $1 trillion mark in coming years. The 26% surge from the 2018 deficit of $779 billion that the government reported Friday reflected such factors as revenue lost from the 2017 Trump tax cut and a...

A new group of Dallas community activists calling itself ‘Our City Our Budget’ wants changes in the proposed city spending plan to boost social programs.

Arlington City Council members met Tuesday to examine the proposed $523 million operating budget for the 2020 fiscal year.

A Trump administration official said Monday that federal income tax refunds would indeed go out despite a large part of the government being shut down. Russell T. Vought, acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, told reporters about the development in a briefing. “Tax refunds will go out,” Vought said.

Taking aim at the sprawling federal bureaucracy, President Donald Trump’s administration released a detailed proposal Thursday to reorganize a number of federal agencies and merge the Education and Labor departments. The latest in a long string of attempts to rein in the government, the plan met with instant skepticism and faced long odds in Congress.

Proposed 2019 budget includes increases in military spending, but sharp cuts to social programs.

NBC 5 has learned Zachary Thompson has been forced out of his position as director of Dallas County Health and Human Services after being accused of harassment.

A possible government shutdown looms as time runs out for congressional approval of a $1 trillion-plus spending bill. A push to set aside money to pay for President Donald Trump’s proposed wall between the United States and Mexico is a sticking point.

Frisco ISD school board members, staff and parents received their first look at the proposed 2017-2018 budget Monday evening.