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.
Blog - /blog/2016/05/23/3-alarming-ndaa-provisions/
May 23, 2016 - House lawmakers passed the NDAA last week with so many controversial provisions, the president has already issued a veto threat.
Blog - /blog/2016/05/11/cellphones-bigger-backpack-or-why-universal-preschool-isnt-priority/
May 11, 2016 - Some things are better left in the past. Huge Pentagon budgets should be one of them.
Blog - /blog/2016/05/10/pentagon-spending-out-control/
May 10, 2016 - The Pentagon's budget should be better - not bigger.
Blog - /blog/2016/04/27/senator-mccain-right-no-secrecy-northrop-grumman-b-21/
April 27, 2016 - Senator John McCain has had enough of government secrecy and bloated Pentagon projects.
Blog - /blog/2016/04/26/4-things-congress-has-been-doing-instead-passing-budget-resolution/
April 26, 2016 - What's Congress been doing instead of passing a budget resolution? We name 4 things.
