BRUSSELS — The countries that use the euro pulled Greece back from an imminent and potentially catastrophic default on Tuesday, when they finally stitched together a euro130 billion ($170 billion) rescue they hope will also provide a lifeline to their common currency.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Digging in for a bruising struggle, Republicans on Congress’ powerful deficit-fighting “supercommittee” targeted Social Security and government health care spending Tuesday while Democrats pressed for higher tax revenue as part of any deal to reduce red ink by at least $1.2 trillion over the next decade.
Delaware County commissioners on Thursday unanimously rejected a fact-finders report that recommended giving unionized Delaware County Sheriff’s deputies a 3 percent raise this year, and a 2.75 percent increase in 2012. “Any wage increase of less than 3 percent would likely result in deputies’ real income being less in 2011 than it was in 2010,” fact-finder Alan M. Ruben wrote in a 78-page report.
WASHINGTON — Americans are angry at Congress in the aftermath of the debt crisis and Republicans could pay the greatest price, a new Associated Press-GfK poll suggests.
WASHINGTON — Horror stories are flying about the damage that might be wreaked should Congress and President Barack Obama fail to cut a deal by the Aug. 2 deadline to increase America’s borrowing limit. Nearly every American is in harm’s way, either directly or indirectly.