I had an interesting discovery while combing through the numbers of the president's budget. I found that President Obama's spending priorities match pretty closely with the things Americans say they want. Of course the budget is complicated. But let’s say for a moment that it’s as simple as a public opinion polling question.

This data story looks at the effect of sequestration on the federal work-study program.

The Federal Priorities Database shows how the Federal Pell Grant program has recently benefitted from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (i.e., stimulus money).

38 datasets have been updated to reflect yesterday's release of the FY 2010 Consolidated Federal Funds Report, which tracks federal government expenditures or obligations.

We've added a new expenditure. Adult Education: grants to states that fund local programs of adult education and literacy services.

We've added percentage of revenue from federal, state, and local sources to our school district data.

Average Teacher Salary is now current through the school year ending in 2010.

We've made 13 school district-level datasets available for viewing and downloading.