At the last of three budget hearings Thursday, the City Council made minor tweaks but largely left Mayor Tim Keller’s ...

For example, a 2011 measure changed the formula used to allocate money to L.A. libraries, increasing that budget by about 70%. Voters also weighed in several times on changes to the pension system ...

A number of Europe's last defense budget holdouts finally, in April, agreed to meet NATO's longstanding 2% of GDP guideline level for military expenditure. The Belgian, Italian and Spanish ...

Top Democrats in the Massachusetts Senate are seeking to boost state spending by more than 6% next year — and say ...

After a sharp, brief fight in which Democrats were outnumbered by majority Republicans, Missouri legislative budget ...