Federal Budget Analysis: Health Care
Trump & GOP Stack the Deck Against Struggling Americans to Build a War and Mass Deportation Machine
March 4, 2025
The GOP’s extreme increases in militarized spending - at the expense of working people and the planet - will make us all less secure.
A Moral Budget vs. A War Budget
Dec. 20, 2021
These two bills represent diametrically opposed views of how to address the challenges of our time: a moral budget vs a war budget. Congress: Which side are you on?
Poverty Amidst Pandemic Explainer
Sept. 25, 2020
In 2017, 140 million people in the United States were living in poverty or on the verge of poverty using this measure. With everything changed since 2019, and official poverty measures for 2020 still far in the future, we asked: what has become of the 140 million during the pandemic?
US Over-Investment in the Pentagon Left Us Vulnerable to the Coronavirus
June 15, 2020
Congress allocates hundreds of billions of dollars to the Pentagon and militarized policing and immigration systems in the name of security, while underinvesting in priorities like health care, medical research and poverty programs that could keep us safe during this crisis.
Fact Sheet: Wall Funding vs. Coronavirus
March 2, 2020
President Trump’s cruel immigration initiatives could instead fund a rational response to Coronavirus
Poor People's Moral Budget: Everybody Has the Right to Live
June 17, 2019
In the seven sections of the Moral Budget, we look at policies and investments for seven critical areas of the Poor People’s Moral Agenda.
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Tax Day 2019
April 11, 2019
Tax Day is April 15, 2019. Want to know what your taxes pay for, and who pays what?
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Souls of Poor Folk
April 10, 2018
The Souls of Poor Folk is an assessment of the conditions and trends of poverty today and of the past fifty in the United States.
Tax Day 2018
March 22, 2018
Tax Day is April 17, 2017. Want to know what your taxes pay for, and who pays what?
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The Souls of Poor Folk: A Preliminary Report
Dec. 4, 2017
To support this modern-day Poor People’s Campaign, the Institute for Policy Studies has produced an analysis of the campaign’s four core issues: racism, poverty, the war economy/militarism, and ecological destruction.