Creating a budget is an important part of smart financial planning. But sticking to a budget when you have very little money can be overwhelming.

Part of the President's budget proposal focuses on an initiative expanding early childhood development programs.

President Obama signed the $1.1 trillion spending bill that funds the federal government through the end of September.

Six government programs the government is still funding. Believe it or not.

The International Monetary Fund has ended up smack in the middle of the budget debate in Washington.

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

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

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.

A deal to avoid another government shutdown seems to be coalescing around increasing revenues — but not taxes.

San Francisco is experimenting with what's known as participatory budgeting to give more people a say in how their tax dollars are spent.