Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, recently spoke with The National Memo about the sequester's automatic budget cuts, the danger of cuts to Social Security, the Keystone XL pipeline, immigration reform

The second best thing that happened in November with President Barack Obama’s re-election was that Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan

 Raising taxes on the rich alone won't close the deficit or erase the national debt, as Republicans superciliously inform us over and over again. But in their negotiations with the White House to avert the so-called fiscal cliff

 With Congress finally starting to have a serious conversation about our revenue crisis, there are obvious reasons to limit the amount of mortgage interest that Americans can deduct from their taxable income

Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan is taking a beating from fact-checkers, who have had to work overtime to try to verify the claims he made last week when accepting the nomination for vice president at the Republican National Convention...

By naming Paul Ryan as the Republican vice presidential nominee, Mitt Romney has endorsed...

When George W. Bush made his first public appearance in many months to discuss economic policy...

Only in the Republican Party would Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan be considered...

Seeking applause from a right-wing audience in Michigan, Mitt Romney vowed: "I will cut spending...

In the name of curtailing deficits, politicians across the country are hacking away at programs that aim to make children healthier. In Congress, for example, House Republicans are spearheading a budget that eviscerates funding for food assistance and effectively defunds the wildly successful Children's Health...