Blog - /blog/2022/09/07/relieving-all-student-debt-would-cost-much-f35-jet-fighter/
- ...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.
Blog - /blog/2020/11/25/building-back-better-should-be-global-challenge/
- U.S. economic recovery efforts will not succeed if the global economy remains weak and serves only a small rich minority.
Blog - /blog/2019/08/09/bipartisan-738-billion-military-budget-deal/
- ...debt for the same period. But the deal didn’t come cheap: it came at the price of an astoundingly high, $738 billion military budget.
Blog - /blog/2017/10/20/senate-steps-closer-tax-cuts-very-rich/
- ...debt that they themselves created, members of Congress will want massive cuts to programs that help the poor and middle class.
Blog - /blog/2016/11/11/open-community-forum-friday/
- Please mark your calendars and join us for an engaging discussion on the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead.
Blog - /blog/2016/06/28/senate-vote-promesa-way-help-puerto-rico/
- Puerto Rico is in crisis. What should the U.S. federal government do about it?
Blog - /blog/2016/03/24/balanced-budget-amendment-three-reasons-its-colossally-bad-idea/
- A balanced budget amendment was, is, and will remain a really, really bad idea.
Blog - /blog/2016/01/12/president-obamas-last-state-union-look-back/
- Today President Obama will give his final State of the Union address. A look back at seven years of president's budgets and our predictions about what you'll hear tonight.
Blog - /blog/2025/05/13/trillion-dollar-trade-what-if-presidents-budget-prioritized-communities-instead-war-profiteers/
May 13, 2025 - ...Education, green energy, and so much more. The U.S. already...
Analysis - /analysis/2025/tax-day-2025-your-tax-receipt/tax-day-2025-notes-and-sources/
April 9, 2025 - ...Education Department of Education: Includes outlays under Education subfunctions for the Agency, “Department of Education.” College Financial Aid: Includes outlays under Educat...
Analysis - /analysis/2025/trump-gop-stack-deck-against-struggling-americans-build-war-and-mass-deportation/
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.
Analysis - /analysis/2025/senate-republicans-reach-historic-levels-militarized-spending-expense-human-need/
Feb. 12, 2025 - Senate Republicans are aiming to cut federal spending on social services while increasing the budget by at least $346 billion over the next four years ($86.5 billion annually) to fund the Pentagon and...
Analysis - /analysis/2024/tax-day-2024/tax-day-2024-notes-and-sources/
March 26, 2024 - National Priorities Project's Tax Day shows how your individual income taxes were spent. Those are a portion of the taxes withheld from your paycheck.
Analysis - /analysis/2023/fact-sheet-invest-communities-not-violence/
Nov. 9, 2023 - ...education, housing, and a just energy transition to name a few. Here’s how legislators have splurged on militarism, and what could happen if those funds instead benefited people and communities....
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/06/03/progressive-say-submitting-gop-ransom-debt-celing/
June 3, 2023 - ...debt ceiling deal: Yay! Bipartisanship works! Here's the reality: GOP radicals held the economy hostage, Democrats paid the ransom, and bipartisanship is badly broken."
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/06/02/lockheed-ceo-hails-pentagon-budget-boost-debt-deal/
June 2, 2023 - ...debt ceiling deal is "as good an outcome as our industry or our company could ask for at this point."
Analysis - /analysis/2023/warfare-state-how-funding-militarism-compromises-our-welfare/
May 24, 2023 - Nearly two-thirds of the federal discretionary budget goes to militarized federal programs, leaving just over a third for our communities — a sliver some lawmakers want to cut even further.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/05/24/report-trillion-militarized-spending-crushing/
May 24, 2023 - "We keep hearing that our government can't afford nice things—or necessary things—for everyone," said the paper's co-author. "Yet militarized spending in the U.S. has almost doubled over t...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/04/18/where-does-my-tax-money-go-calculator-what-happens/
April 18, 2023 - Maybe you can’t get out of paying the Internal Revenue Service, but a little transparency never hurts.
Analysis - /analysis/2023/tax-day-2023/tax-day-2023-notes-and-sources/
April 17, 2023 - ...Education Elementary, secondary, higher and vocational education. Subfunctions: 501, 502, 503 Example programs: Pell Grants Special Education Title I grants to disadvantaged public schools ...
