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Pressure grows for compensation for the Caribbean trade LAST month Rodney Leon, a Haitian-American architect, won a competition for a memorial to victims of the slave trade. His white marble [...]

The chancellor signals a shift in the great state-slimming project IN THE House of Commons on June 26th George Osborne wryly praised Eric Pickles, the rotund communities and local government [...]

One too many sleepless nights Better ways to cut the state's justice bill 'THE first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers,' cackles a rebellious butcher in 'Henry VI'. [...]

No country has ever outsourced the way it equips its armed forces. Britain could soon be the first to do so A FEW months ago Britain's Ministry of Defence finally [...]

George Osborne's growth plan involves fresh cuts, looser monetary policy and another housing-market bubble BUDGET day started badly for George Osborne. A flurry of morning news revealed that youth unemployment [...]

Imagine a foreign visitor who has learned just one fact about America: For the past century our politics has been defined by a contest between two movements, one intermittently calling [...]

Byline: Charles S. Clark Dear Deputy Secretary: Congratulations on your recent appointment to the department's No. 2 slot. As you prepare in the coming months for what might-through no fault [...]

Byline: Kellie Lunney A lot of people don't really believe a budget sequester will happen. The hope is that, similar to government's near shutdowns in 2011, Congress and the White [...]

Byline: Billy House Sequestration's looming $1.2 trillion in spending cuts has turned into an election-year game of Russian roulette. Instead of cooperating to find more-palatable alternatives, lawmakers are watching to [...]

The chancellor made a little money go a long way in his annual budget IT WAS the first time in several years that a chancellor of the exchequer did not [...]

Councils in Scotland face a 6% real-terms cut in central funding over the next three years though additional money is being made available to improve care for older people in [...]

Silvio Berlusconi's government unveils another emergency budget PROMISES, promises. Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, used to say that his government would never put its hands into taxpayers' pockets. Little [...]

Local authority social care workers will have to work for longer and will lose their entitlement to a pension based on their final salary, chancellor George Osborne indicated in today's [...]

George Osborne's second budget was quiet but creditable SOME people think football is a matter of life and death; on the contrary, Bill Shankly, a legendary coach, once observed, it's [...]

This was not the radical reforming budget it had been billed as. But its heart was in the right place 'THIS is not a tax-raising budget. But nor can we [...]

SCOTT WALKER, new-minted Republican governor of Wisconsin, and GOP majorities in both houses of the state legislature faced a shortfall of $137 million in this year's budget, and of $3.6 [...]

Byline: Tim Fernholz A week ago, an observer might have called last year's presidential fiscal commission a failure. Despite editorial praise for the shared sacrifice in the panel's final report, [...]

In the summer of 1995, a major wildfire consumed nearly 5,000 acres of forest near Jerusalem, forcing scores of people to evacuate their homes and causing much damage to property. [...]

The federal government can save between $25 billion and $54 billion a year by changing the way it buys goods and services, according to a new report from the Center [...]

With Republicans planning a full-on assault to reduce the federal deficit during the next Congress, a nonpartisan research and management organization has outlined a plan to cut costs and improve [...]

The Social Security Administration, Homeland Security Department, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention each have awarded during the past month multibillion dollar, comprehensive information technology contracts that could [...]

Brussels wants to delve deep into the running of national economies. It should beware of digging too far THEY came to Brussels this week in their tens of thousands, from [...]

While the Energy Department has obligated 90 percent of the $32.7 billion it received through the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, committing the remaining $3.4 billion by Sept. 30 [...]

Ready, steady, go, Sir Alan Depoliticising forecasts is proving tricky, but it remains worthwhile ONE of the coalition government's much-trumpeted first steps was to set up the Office for Budget [...]

All the scenarios are painful, but some make more sense than others FROM the outset Britain's new coalition government has said that its main task is to tackle the yawning [...]

Why we must balance the budget. You might think that Europe's economic turmoil would inject a note of urgency into America's budget debate. After all, high government deficits and debt [...]

The government pretends otherwise, but Italy's economy still has deep structural problems that undermine much chance of growth NO NEWS is good news. But for Italy's finance minister, Giulio Tremonti, [...]

The government's new austerity measures may prove to be enough--so long as they are fully implemented GEORGE PAPACONSTANTINOU, the overworked Greek finance minister, likens the effort to steer Greece away [...]

Gordhan won't slip on their skins A budget that gives little to the left LEFT-WING trade-union allies of President Jacob Zuma have reacted with fury to the business-friendly budget, unveiled [...]

Byline: John Maggs In the view of one high-ranking politician, the looming budget problem is fundamentally a matter of procedure. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-N.D., is taking a [...]

Flogging a few spare assets is not the way to mend the public finances MAYBE it was just a coincidence, but on the day it emerged that he would have [...]

The re-elected government's first budget falls short of expectations FROM the ramparts of Bandra fort, built by the Portuguese and now haunted by bashful couples, you can admire Mumbai's new [...]

Capitol Hill insiders often use the phrase 'kick the can' to describe legislative procrastination. Can't fix a problem? No worries. Leave it to the next Congress. And on thorny issues, [...]

Byline: Judith Tydd backgrounder: taxing response There has been a mixed response to many of the tax measures in last week's B udget. The 50% income tax rate for high-income [...]

Every ALA president has the opportunity to address members with seven columns during his or her yearlong term. These columns identify new directions, provide opinion, introduce content, and recognize people [...]