uncle sam

Taxing the rich has once again become a hot button issue. How do Americans feel amount the amount they are handing over to Uncle Sam each year?

Roughly 530 colleges across the country will soon have to submit special reports to Uncle Sam, explaining why their tuition and student fees have recently surged.

At a solar power company in downtown San Francisco, Edward Fenster plans on doubling his workforce to 8,000 people in the next year.

If you're in the market for long-term-care insurance, take a look at what the government will offer soon. But should you wait for it or buy other coverage now?

How can it be that you owe more to Uncle Sam than General Electric does? See which major corporations get tax rates that are below yours.

For more than four decades, students have borrowed money from Uncle Sam to pay for college. That tradition continues this year.

A portion of the $787 billion stimulus package was set aside for tax breaks for money-losing companies.

But guess who's knocking at Uncle Sam's door looking for a piece of the action? The banks. Jeremy Hobson reports.

Thanks largely to Uncle Sam's generosity, the automaker has an excellent balance sheet and is on the road to competitiveness. Is it time for investors to hop on board?  

From swords to socks, horses to helicopters, you can find an amazing array of stuff through online government auctions -- and you might pay pennies on the dollar.

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.