Institute Index
August 2, 2011 -
Under the U.S. debt ceiling agreement expected to be signed into law by President Obama today, initial cuts to federal discretionary spending over the next decade: about $1 trillion
May 30, 2011 -
In 1865, formerly enslaved people in Charleston, South Carolina, held a procession to honor Union soldiers who had died in a local Confederate prison camp. Known as "Decoration Day," the ceremony foreshadowed what would become our modern Memorial Day.
