The speech laid out the Administration’s plan to encourage job growth amid consistently disappointing unemployment reports.

Tomorrow, the President is scheduled to make an address before a joint session of Congress to lay out the White House’s plan to create job growth.

A roundup of this morning’s must-read budget and economic stories.

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A new GAO report reveals that at least 3,700 recipients of $24 billion in stimulus funds owe more than $750 million in taxes.

New York goes after diplomat’s parking tickets, some California life guards earn 6 figures, and several states get stimulus spending originally meant for Florida.

Happy second birthday American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (aka “the “stimulus”)! Let’s see if your second year was better than your first.

What can groundhogs tell us about the weather? About as much as politicians can tell us about how to balance a checkbook.

Tonight the Auburn Tigers and the Oregon Ducks will face off in the college football national championship. Auburn is picked to win, but when it comes to the economic and fiscal condition of each team’s state, do the Tigers still come out on top?