President Trump is requesting a record-high $1.01 trillion “defense” budget for FY 2026 while gutting federal agencies and social services that actually keep the country safe – things like clean air and water protection, Medicaid, child nutrition, the Department of Education, green energy, and so much more.   The U.S. already...

Total student loan debt in the United States amounts to $1.7 trillion — that's already how much the Pentagon is set to spend on its most expensive weapon system, the F-35 jet fighter.

While climate change fuels migration, the United States hardens its southern border instead of investing in real sources of safety for people in this country and around the world. 

Many school districts are deciding that police in classrooms cause more problems than they solve.

For the 140 million people who are poor, or one emergency away from being poor, we know it's necessary to present a comprehensive response to the systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism, and war economy plaguing our country today. This Poor People’s Moral Budget asks, given the resources of our society, whether these demands are also possible. Our answer is a resounding yes.

April 15, 2019 is Tax Day. Do you know where your tax dollars are? Here's a hint: military contractors cost the average taxpayer more than the price of a new Macbook Pro, but public housing costs the average taxpayer less than a curling iron from Wal-Mart. The average American paid...

President Trump has said that he will veto any bill that doesn’t give him the $5 billion he has demanded for his border wall.

Congress is in "recess" from April 7 to April 21, 2017. That means that members of Congress are home in their states or districts -- and they're ready to meet with you.

Trump wants to take $54 billion from human needs and give it to the military. What if we did the reverse?

A leaked Department of Homeland Security internal report recently put the cost of President Trump's border wall at $21.6 billion.