budget

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Bird designed tools to help the kids budget, and holds weekly money meetings to check in and reinforce the ideas she hopes her children, now 11, 9 and 8 years old, will internalize.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026

The budget request is seeking money "to rebuild Alcatraz as a state-of-the-art secure prison facility", with funds covering the first year of costs.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

The projections, released alongside the administration’s proposed budget for 2027, are rosier than expectations among economists on Wall Street and at the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

The funding request was included in Trump’s budget proposal, which provides Congress with a look at the administration’s priorities ahead of the next fiscal year.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

“When your entire allowance for the week is only three bucks, you learn to budget your time! That’s why I’m conditioned to hate being late!”

From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio