Article - /pressroom/articles/2018/09/24/Heres-What-We-Could-Have-If-We-Slashed-Military/
Sept. 24, 2018 - The US military budget sucks up an enormous amount of resources without making the world more peaceful or democratic. Here are a few ways we could better spend that $717 billion.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2018/06/14/Military-Industrial-Drain/
June 14, 2018 - As Trump stokes tensions around the world, he’s adding fuel to the fire by demanding even more Pentagon spending. It’s a dangerous military buildup intended to underwrite endless wars and ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2018/04/17/7-Surprising-Tax-Facts/
April 17, 2018 - Here’s where your tax dollars go (and who isn't paying taxes at all).
Article - /pressroom/articles/2018/04/17/Tax-Day-2018-Bonanza-Corporations-and-Military/
April 17, 2018 - ...federal government as corporations do. It wasn't always this way. Corporations used to pay more income taxes than individuals did. In 1943, for example, corporations contributed 40 percent of federal...
Analysis - /analysis/2018/tax-day-2018/tax-day-2018-notes-and-sources/
March 22, 2018 - Tax Day shows how your individual income taxes were spent. Those are a portion of the taxes withheld from your paycheck, and due this year on April 18 (not April 15, as usual).
Analysis - /analysis/2018/tax-day-2018/seven-tax-facts-2018/
March 21, 2018 - Seven surprising facts about where our tax dollars go, and who pays what.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2018/02/12/Trump-Infrastructure-Scam/
Feb. 12, 2018 - It’s a shame that the president and Congress aren’t willing to make these simple choices to fund real infrastructure investments. It’s probably a fantasy that private investors will ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2018/01/17/Trump-Medicaid-Work-Requirements/
Jan. 17, 2018 - The work requirements fulfill a long-term Republican ideal of making poor Americans jump through many hoops, suffer undignified scrutiny, and be forced to work in a stagnant economy in order to be par...
Blog - /blog/2017/08/29/announcing-our-new-partnership-institute-policy-studies-letter-npp-supporters-executive-director-nora-ranney/
Aug. 29, 2017 - As of October 1, National Priorities Project (NPP) will join the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS).
Blog - /blog/2017/04/18/tax-day-2017-taxes-and-all-feels/
April 18, 2017 - Taxes are like membership dues. We pay them to fund our priorities – the services and programs we care about – and they are also an investment in our country’s future.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2017/04/12/why-tax-resistance-under-trump-needs-antiwar-edge/
April 12, 2017 - Tax resistance, it seems, is having a moment.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2017/04/12/Building-new-militarism-movement/
April 12, 2017 - As Martin Luther King Jr. noted 50 years ago, you can’t fight militarism unless you also fight racism and materialism.
Analysis - /analysis/2017/militarized-budget-2017/
April 3, 2017 - In 2016, the "militarized" budget amounted to 64 percent of discretionary spending.
Blog - /blog/2017/03/28/pink-out-day-planned-parenthoods-federal-funding/
March 28, 2017 - Federal funding for Planned Parenthood works out to about $2.50 per taxpayer - but it buys a lot.
Analysis - /analysis/2017/tax-day-2017/tax-day-2017-notes-and-sources/
March 28, 2017 - Tax Day 2017: How we did it.
Analysis - /analysis/2017/tax-day-2017/seven-tax-facts-2017/
March 28, 2017 - From who pays to what we pay for, here are the facts.
Analysis - /analysis/2017/national-priorities-project-statement-trump-fy-2018-budget-proposal/
March 16, 2017 - ...Federal funds for job training have already declined precipitously over recent decades. In 1975, the U.S. spent seven times more on job training (adjusting for inflation) than it does today. The budg...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2017/02/27/8-things-instead-of-military/
Feb. 27, 2017 - "There is ample money within the Pentagon budget that could be put to better use," NPP Lindsay Koshgarian Research Director told ATTN.
Blog - /blog/2017/02/13/six-things-you-could-buy-instead-border-wall/
Feb. 14, 2017 - A leaked Department of Homeland Security internal report recently put the cost of President Trump's border wall at $21.6 billion.
Blog - /blog/2016/08/18/federal-budget-racist-movement-black-lives-and-federal-budget/
Aug. 18, 2016 - Make no mistake: budgets are moral documents.
