What’s the cost of the Iraq war to taxpayers in your town? If you could reallocate those tax dollars, what would you buy instead? NPP's easy-to-use, localizable federal budget data can answer these questions and many more.

A note from NPP's new executive director Doug Hall.

 In 12 short weeks, NPP and Peace Action has visited 4 states and reached more than 60 participants with our groundbreaking "Move the Money" trainings, encouraging local communities to engage in the federal budget process, learn about current spending priorities, and develop strategies for how to change them.

Over the past decade, American taxpayers have sunk more than $816 billion into funding the war in Iraq. 

We recently re-launched a major portion of our website, organizing our federal budget research content into eight issue areas. This week, we bring you key highlights on military and security spending.

Here's one way we could help Millenials attain higher education without burgeoning student loan debt.

NPP is a proud supporter of Hack for Western Mass, an event that brings people together to solve local problems and introduces youth to a culture of civic engagement.

Federal spending transparency advocates gathered at Transparency Camp 2014 to hear the latest on the DATA Act and how to make it a success.