The bill contains mostly common-sense measures to curb waste and abuse and to cut back on things that the government shouldn’t be doing.

I’ve been researching and teaching economics for more than 30 years, and still I can’t wrap my head around trillions of ...

Gov. Maura Healey approved a $60.9 billion annual budget and rolled out a proposal to empower her administration with greater ...

If the U.S. government were a private-sector company, it would have filed for bankruptcy long ago to wash away its debt. But ...

With the state facing a hazy fiscal future, Healey also asked lawmakers to give her the expanded power to cut across state ...

The health care provider tax was central to the swift approval of the state's two-year budget. Here's how it all came ...

The 2017 bill brought about sweeping, albeit temporary, changes to the tax code. Provisions which nearly doubled the standard ...

Legislators are offering Healey some bulwarks against federal or economic upheaval. Negotiators scaled back their original ...

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has signed a new two-year budget to secure federal Medicaid funding. The budget passed both ...