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An AI productivity boom, if it materialises, may help buy major economies more time to clean up their strained public finances, economists say, although it won't do the heavy lifting.

Republicans on the House Government Oversight Committee approved the committee’s report Tuesday recommending an independent audit and transfer of the judicial branch’s court debt collection system to ...

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Americans are facing rising debt levels. Household debt balances reached $18.8 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2025, with total household debt increasing by $191 billion just in Q4 2025.

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Millions of rural Americans get their water from districts that serve 10,000 people or less. Thousands of those systems are failing to meet federal standards.

Adam Chappell doesn't remember eastern Arkansas' Cotton Plant from when it was a thriving agricultural town. But he at least remembers when it had businesses downtown, a large farm community, and ...

A local campaign from the Dayton Collaboratory raised $137,850 in order to erase $21.95 million in qualifying medical debt for thousands of local families — with Clark County seeing the biggest chunk ...

More than 500,000 Illinois residents have so far benefited from the program, with average debt relief of about $1,200 a person, according to the governor’s office.

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