The “fiscal cliff” is a politically manufactured crisis that is more like “steps,” Zerlina writes in a piece at Ebony, adding that Americans can rest assured that the end of the world is not upon us ...

Members of Congress are about to flee Capitol Hill, and they'll be gone until Nov. 13, one week after Election Day. As they shift to full-time campaigning, lawmakers are leaving behind many questions ...

Jon Stewart revisited the fiscal cliff of doom tonight and the differing proposals being put up by both sides on how to deal with it. Whereas Stewart found the White House’s proposal a mostly balanced ...

Panic over the fiscal cliff is so widespread, one might forget why people are panicking about it. After all, the fiscal cliff is a major deficit reduction event, and reducing the deficit is a very ...

Democrat Erskine Bowles, one of the authors of the highly praised deficit-reduction plan drafted by President Obama’s fiscal commission, has offered to assist the White House and congressional leaders ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Every day, the transit fiscal cliff gets closer, but, on Thursday, the Regional Transportation Authority Board took steps to delay its arrival by shifting $74 million to the CTA from ...