It is possible to eat healthfully on a limited budget, Post said.
As I noted in my budget post, this is just as well – employment growth is expected to be pretty weak for at least another couple of years.
Ms. Burwell would take over for Jacob J. Lew, now the Treasury secretary, who left the budget post in early 2012 to become the White House chief of staff.
Mr. Bolten would replace Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., who stepped down from the budget post last month to explore a run for governor of Indiana.
In its traditional budget post-mortem examination, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said there had been a £7bn deterioration in the state's coffers since Alistair Darling's pre-budget report five months ago.
He won the Democrats' top budget post in 1996, after an unsuccessful earlier effort, then played a crucial role in negotiating the 1997 balanced-budget deal between President Bill Clinton and Congressional Republicans.
After working as a bank examiner, he was named to a state budget post in the early 1970s by Gov. Dan Walker, who ultimately went to prison after being convicted of bank fraud, perjury and misapplication of funds.
That situation began last summer, when the Pentagon, the American authorities in Baghdad and Mr. Bolten's Office of Management and Budget began pulling together what would amount to Iraq's first budget post-Saddam Hussein.
The engineers sought excellence and technical progress; the state took up the tab and funded it via several budget posts and controlled energy tariffs in the absence of competition.
She most recently headed the Walmart Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Credited for her experience in and out of Washington, she was unanimously confirmed last year for the budget post, long considered one of the most important White House jobs.
