Congress

For one woman looking for work, unemployment benefits kept certain career options. With Congress not extending benefits, a new plan is in order.

A report shows that more than half of Congress members are millionaires.

A deal to reinstate unemployment insurance is working its way through Congress, but would it mean that people on unemployment would just take a few months longer to find a job?

Congress will return to the New Year without needing to fight about the budget. Will they take the opportunity to deal with other issues?

There are plenty of issues that still need to be dealt with before any grand bargain -- everything from the Farm Bill to unemployment insurance to the debt limit.

The House of Representatives has passed a budget agreement aimed at avoiding another government shutdown. How will it affect the sequestration?

1.3 million people take an immediate hit, but that number would go up throughout the year.

This story about 55 tax breaks about to expire starts in an unlikely place: Barn 63 at the Belmont Race Track in Belmont, N.Y., at the stall of a pretty brown horse with a white star on her forehead.

Steel industry is picking up post-government shutdown.

Think of the U.S. Congress as a procrastinating undergrad, prone to sleeping in. Lawmakers don’t hesitate to hit the “snooze button.”