Last week, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), an arm of the U.S. Department of Education, reported that local, state and federal governments had collectively spent 2.8% more on ...

Once you account for inflation, public spending on preschool hasn’t increased in two decades, according to the latest annual report on the state of preschool education by the National Institute ...

The news out of West Haven reads like a worst-case scenario. With millions of dollars of federal money flowing into the state and local communities to deal with COVID and its aftermath, there was ...

WASHINGTON, May 2 (Reuters) - U.S. construction spending barely rose in March as a moderate increase in outlays on private projects was partially offset by a further decline in public spending.

WASHINGTON, March 7 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Friday that the U.S. economy may slow as it transitions away from public spending towards more private spending ...

Spending watchdog refuses to sign off ‘inadequate’ public sector accounts A lack of clarity on local government spending due to a backlog in audits led to an unprecedented decision by the ...

Public Interest; Whitmer to sign $4.8B spending plan, wants to tackle gas tax relief next. Published: ; Mar. 28, 2022, 1:54 p.m.

The budget proposal, which has to be approved by the D.C. Council, would increase spending by 5.9 percent for each of the city's more than 90,000 public school students .

The official audit watchdog has refused to sign off the Government’s spending figures for the first time due to inadequate scrutiny of local authorities’ finances. Severe backlogs in the ...