Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pam Childers, clerk of circuit court, left, and DeLana Allen-Busbee, clerk staff, listen during the Escambia Board of County ...

Alameda County leaders are threatening to sue over a state bill that would tighten oversight of supervisors’ discretionary ...

Escambia’s Board of County Commissioners has drafted a policy to guide commissioner spending of discretionary funds after Clerk of Court Pam Childers temporarily paused the spending over concerns it ...

New research from Bank of America finds that the top 10 percent of earners account for 70 percent of discretionary spending.

Discretionary expenses refer to non-essential spending on goods and services that are not required to maintain basic living standards. These expenses are often associated with leisure, entertainment, ...

David was a Senior Policy Analyst in the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget at The Heritage Foundation. Despite the considerable amount of energy and political capital expended on fiscal ...

As companies continue to see deferred decision-making in pockets and discretionary demand yet to pick up, the overall ...

Households in the top 10% income bracket drop nearly as much money on discretionary items as the bottom 70% combined, ...