Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Washington Post columnist Robert J. Samuelson in 2019. - (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post) Robert J. Samuelson, who sought to ...

Asserting that health care reform has “sown the seeds” of a “budget crisis,” Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson claimed CBO's estimate that the law will reduce deficits by $143 billion over 10 ...

Those who haven't been following the New York Times Economix blog may have been a trifle surprised yesterday by Robert Samuelson's emphatic denunciation of the Obama administration's ideas for a ...

WASHINGTON — The popular appeal of a single-payer system to solve the nation's health care problems is no secret. Everyone would have insurance, recognizing — as Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., ...

If you want to understand why the tax code is so hard to overhaul, consider the case of the mortgage interest deduction. The issue is so sensitive that the House and Senate are dealing with it in ...

The discouraging March employment report, with a job gain of only 88,000, raises questions beyond the dreary state of today's labor market. Prolonged high joblessness may be silently shredding the ...

Here's a story with a happy ending: The Statistical Abstract of the United States -- which seemed destined for history's morgue -- has survived. At least for now. You may recall (or you may not) that ...

This is the summer of our discontent. As Americans celebrate July 4, they are mad at their leaders, mad at their government and mad at each other. A recent Pew poll finds that “public trust in ...

WASHINGTON — On this Labor Day, there is little good news about labor. We have entered a long period of crushing unemployment and downward pressure on wages that may well transform the nation’s ...

Robert J. Samuelson, who sought to explain the implications of unemployment, inflation and government spending to ordinary readers for more than 40 years as an economics columnist for The Washington ...