One budgeting action in her control is to keep weekly groceries under $55. In October, Kerksick lined up for her first food bank, a Capital Food Bank program specifically for federal contractors and employees in the Washington, D.C., area to get shelf-stable pantry items and fresh produce.

After years of organizing, production workers on commercials have negotiated their first union contract. The Production Workers Guild (IATSE Local 111), which emerged from a sprawling grassroots campaign that culminated in a national union two years ago ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer had proposed extending expiring healthcare subsidies for one year as part of a measure to break the monthlong logjam.

A new Senate Democratic plan for ending the longest partial government shutdown in history met with a wall of Republican resistance late Friday, signaling another round of contentious negotiations that could stretch at least through the weekend.