The stock market has seen a record-breaking ascent this year. But who is actually making money off the boom? Rich people, who are more likely to own stocks, as well as those who live in Democratic states.
Trump's Agriculture Department is promoting more self-sufficiency for people who receive food stamps. The agency is stressing that people who can work should work.
A coalition of senators shut out 34 proposed changes to a bill aimed at loosening Dodd-Frank financial regulations imposed on small and regional lenders after the financial crisis.
America's CEOs are feeling very good right now about the economy and looming corporate tax cuts. However, less than half of the CEOs polled by the Business Roundtable plan to ramp up their hiring.
The European Union has blacklisted 17 jurisdictions as part of a crackdown on tax havens. The list includes South Korea, Barbados, Saint Lucia, Panama and the United Arab Emirates.
President Trump promised to cut the U.S. trade deficits with China and Mexico, along with the overall deficit. So far this year, all those numbers have gone up.
By failing to repeal the alternative minimum tax in their tax reform bill, Senate Republicans inadvertently undermined the research and development tax credit used by drug makers and tech companies.