With energy costs continuing to rise as part of a higher overall cost of living, many Americans are struggling to keep up with utility bills. A recent Payless Power study of more than 1,000 people, ...

Ramit Sethi argues tax breaks act like government assistance for the ultra-wealthy. Experts weigh who really benefits—and who doesn’t.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Head Start, a free learning program for children from low-income families, is next on the chopping block as the government ...

Earlier this week, the ongoing government shutdown obtained a dubious honor — at 39 days and counting, it has become the longest government shutdown in the nation’s history. The shutdown began Oct. 1 ...

Massachusetts is asking for federal disaster aid after February’s blizzard, which brought record snow, outages and major response costs.

WASHINGTON(AP) — A food aid program that helps more than 6 million low-income mothers and young children will run out of federal money within two weeks unless the government shutdown ends, forcing ...

Acting mostly with approval from the Republican-led Congress, President Trump clawed back money it had approved for ...