Each year the Louisiana city of Monroe sets aside money for its various departments’ operations and spending needs, and for the most part, it knows how much to set aside based upon the revenues it expects to collect. When it …
The top budget official in the administration of Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin is going to give lawmakers the state’s best estimate of how much more money will be needed in the current fiscal year to help meet expenses caused by …
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s Cabinet on Friday approved a 12.1 trillion yen ($158 billion) extra budget to help fund the reconstruction of Japan’s tsunami-battered northeast. The supplementary budget for the year through March approved Friday also earmarks about 2 trillion …
Washington’s never-ending budget battle threatened to snarl the recovery from Hurricane Irene as a top Republican said Monday that any federal aid will have to be offset by spending cuts elsewhere. “Yes there’s a federal role, yes we’re going to …
When a salmonella outbreak sickened at least 79 people and killed two this past spring in Rhode Island, the state had only seven food safety inspectors. During the month it took health officials to track the outbreak to a small …