next decade

A small, bipartisan group of lawmakers will be hunkering down this fall, negotiating ways to reduce deficits by at least $1.2 trillion over the next decade.

Interest payments on the national debt could total $5.5 trillion over the next decade, or about 79% of the new debt estimated to accrue between 2012 and 2021.

A task force charged with figuring out the U.S. can cut its deficit by $4 trillion over the next decade is proposing a 15 cent per gallon increase in the federal gasoline tax as one of the steps needed to be taken.

Though slowed by the recession, these US cities have flourished by fostering innovations that put Americans to work and keep the nation ahead of the competition.

Federal programs will dole out more than $500 billion a year over the next decade based on data collected through the 2010 Census, according to a study released Tuesday.

The U.S. government's fiscal outlook is "daunting" with deficits averaging at least $600 billion a year over the next decade, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday.

Many economists say the US economy will grow by a paltry 2% a year for the next decade. Here's why the road looks so rough.

The outcome of the Copenhagen conference shows where investors are likely to see profits -- and costs -- from global warming over the next decade.

Do the past 10 years mean that the next 10 years will be any better for the stock market? Not necessarily.

Here's a new way to think about the U.S. government's epic borrowing: More than half of the $9 trillion in debt that Uncle Sam is expected to build up over the next decade will be interest.