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Mattea Kramer
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Military & Security
Tom from St. Paul, Minnesota, wrote in to ask why our federal budget numbers don't combine funding for veterans with military spending, since they're both part of a larger national security category.
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Becky Sweger
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Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net,
Transparency & Data
SNAP participation and monthly benefits data are now current through fiscal year 2011.
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Becky Sweger
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Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net,
Transparency & Data
TANF individual and family participation numbers are now current through fiscal year 2011.
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Chris Hellman
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Budget Process
This week the U.S. Senate will consider a series of amendments to the budget resolution. A budget resolution sets out spending and revenue guidelines for Congress’s annual appropriations process.Except that the Senate won’t pass a budget resolution this year. To Hill watchers, this isn’t too surprising – the media is ...
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Becky Sweger
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Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net,
Transparency & Data
School breakfast, school lunch, and summer lunch participation numbers are now current through fiscal year 2011.
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Mattea Kramer
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Budget Process
This week we announced the release of our new book A People’s Guide to the Federal Budget, and in yesterday’s blog post we admitted to being idealists: A book can change the world, we said. But it’s not just because we’re idealists that we think so. Consider the evidence.
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Mattea Kramer
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Budget Process
National Priorities Project is thrilled to announce the release of our new book, A People's Guide to the Federal Budget. Call us idealists, but we at NPP believe that a little information goes a long way, and that a book can change history. Washington belongs to the people, and this book is the federal budget for the rest of us.
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Becky Sweger
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Budget Process,
Transparency & Data
Today the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5326, the appropriations bill for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, NASA, and other related agencies.H.R. 5326 includes an amendment that would prohibit the Department of Commerce from funding the American Community Survey (ACS), a yearly household survey conducted by the Census Bureau. ...
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Becky Sweger
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Transparency & Data
Having access to a single, comprehensive source for U.S. federal spending data isn't a partisan matter. We support the DATA Act because accurate spending information is critical to an informed budget conversation.
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Becky Sweger
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Health Care,
Transparency & Data
State Children's Health Insurance Program enrollments are now current through fiscal year 2010.