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• Next year's budget gap pegged at $963 million

  November 16, 2012 10:56 AM

  BATON ROUGE - The first snapshot of next year's state budget shortfall has been unveiled to lawmakers, and it's grim. Gov. Bobby Jindal's budget advisers said Friday the state is short $963 million to continue running all existing programs and account for inflationary growth in the budget year that begins... more »

• US government runs $120 billion October deficit

  November 13, 2012 1:30 PM

  WASHINGTON - The federal government started the 2013 budget year with a $120 billion deficit, an indication that the nation is on a path to another $1 trillion-plus deficit. The Treasury Department says the October deficit was 22 percent higher than the same month last year. Officials said last year's... more »

• Federal deficit tops $1 trillion for fourth year

  October 12, 2012 2:14 PM

  WASHINGTON - The federal budget deficit has topped $1 trillion for a fourth straight year. But the deficit for the just-ended 2012 budget year is $207 billion less than last year. The deficit totaled $1.1 trillion for 2012. The government's revenue was boosted by a modest improvement in economic... more »

• CBO tallies 2012 deficit at $1.1 trillion

  October 5, 2012 12:43 PM

  WASHINGTON - A new estimate puts the deficit for the just-completed 2012 budget year at $1.1 trillion, the fourth straight year of trillion dollar deficits on President Barack Obama's watch. The result was a slight improvement from the 2011 deficit of $1.3 trillion. The bleak figures from the Congressional Budget... more »

• Government reports $1.3 trillion budget deficit

  October 15, 2010 1:07 PM

  The Obama administration says the federal deficit hit a near-record $1.3 trillion for the just-completed budget year. That means the government had to borrow 37 cents out of every dollar it spent as tax revenues continued to lag while spending on food stamps and unemployment benefits went up as the... more »