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Washington lawmakers and the Trump administration passed a major legislative package this summer that will cut funding for programs that help students from low-income backgrounds —…

UK retail sales growth cooled last month as concerns over inflation and looming tax increases in Rachel Reeves’s autumn budget weighed on British consumers.In a snapshot…

Cabinet ministers have been told they will not be able to use the Treasury reserve to fund public sector pay rises and cannot access it unless…

BBC bosses are lobbying to use the UK’s defence budget to help pay for the embattled World Service, arguing that aspects of the service should qualify…

The battle over next year’s federal education budget has begun. Congress and the White House have released not one, not two, but three competing funding visions…

Jennifer Clarke & Tom EspinerBBC NewsReutersThe Chancellor Rachel Reeves will set out plans for the economy when she delivers the Budget on 26 November.There have been…

Donald Trump’s government is increasingly authoritarian.The president is launching pretextual investigations against his enemies, while providing pardons and military honors to the most violent of his…

Faisal IslamEconomics editorWPA Pool/Getty ImagesIt’s been a bruising first week back for the government, full of resignations, reshuffles, and ructions in markets. All of this will…

Dan York-Smith, the former senior Treasury official Keir Starmer has appointed as his principal private secretary, is a qualified international gymnastics judge – a skill set…

As Keir Starmer returns from his summer break in Europe, and Labour MPs head back to Westminster for the new parliamentary session, the government will be…