Analysis - /analysis/2012/election-2012-voter-guide/fact-sheet-taxes/
Sept. 7, 2012 - Should tax rates go up or down, and for whom? This one-pager includes important but little-known facts about taxes and loopholes in the tax code, plus proposals from both presidential candidates.
Analysis - /analysis/2012/election-2012-voter-guide/fact-sheet-federal-spending/
Sept. 7, 2012 - ...deficits and what should be done?
Analysis - /analysis/2012/election-2012-voter-guide/fact-sheet-health-care/
Sept. 7, 2012 - Health care accounts for 24 percent of the federal budget. This one-pager covers the facts on growth in health spending and proposals from both presidential candidates.
Analysis - /analysis/2012/election-2012-voter-guide/fact-sheet-social-security/
Sept. 7, 2012 - Is Social Security in crisis or not? This one-pager covers the must-know facts and proposals from both presidential candidates.
Analysis - /analysis/2012/election-2012-voter-guide/
Sept. 7, 2012 - National Priorities Project's suite of resources for the 2012 election: A comparison of the presidential candidates on 12 key issues, plus fact sheets with crucial background information on Medicare, ...
Analysis - /analysis/2012/election-2012-voter-guide/voter-guide-2012-obama-and-romney-issues/
Sept. 7, 2012 - National Priorities Project compares the candidates on 12 key issues.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/09/07/fact-checking-obamas-speech/
Sept. 7, 2012 - TRUE – “After two wars that have cost us thousands of lives and over a trillion dollars…” The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost more than $1.37 trillion, according to t...
Blog - /blog/2012/09/05/president-obama-and-romneyryan-deficits/
Sept. 5, 2012 - ...deficits.
Video - /videos/2012/8/27/budget-brief-the-tax-code/
Aug. 27, 2012 - ...Deficit, Taxes & Revenue
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/08/27/everything-you-want-to-know-about-the-budget/
Aug. 27, 2012 - Are you secretly confused by all this talk about the Ryan budget? If the conflicting rhetoric, incalculable numbers and incessant punditry leave your head spinning — don’t worry, you&rsquo...
Blog - /blog/2012/08/17/you-ask-we-answer-are-tax-breaks-government-spending/
Aug. 20, 2012 - ...deficit.
Blog - /blog/2012/08/13/ryan-pick-solidifies-competing-visions-federal-budget-debate/
Aug. 13, 2012 - If there was ever any doubt that the U.S. federal budget would claim center-stage in the 2012 presidential race, it vanished with Mitt Romney's selection of House Budget Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) as the ...
Blog - /blog/2012/07/25/you-ask-we-answer-do-some-people-pay-no-taxes-all/
July 30, 2012 - ...Deficits in Washington” has sparked a LOT of questions about federal revenues – the “budwonk” word for “taxes” – especially this one: “Is it true that h...
Blog - /blog/2012/07/25/review-peoples-guide-federal-budget/
July 25, 2012 - ...deficit and spending are complex, and you wish you understood them? Then A People’s Guide to the Federal Budget is the book for you. The book is written in very simple language, making it access...
Analysis - /analysis/2012/untold-story-deficits-washington/
July 19, 2012 - ...deficits while news media report that federal spending is out of control. But deficits depend on two things: spending and revenue. In 2000, when the budget was balanced, federal tax revenue amounted t...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/07/18/four-spending-myths-keeping-us-from-recovery/
July 18, 2012 - ...deficit disaster! National security spending is being, or will soon be, slashed to the bone! Obamacare will sink the ship of state. Each of these claims has grabbed national attention in a...
Video - /videos/2012/7/16/budget-brief-fiscal-cliff-part-2/
July 16, 2012 - ...Deficit, Taxes & Revenue
Video - /videos/2012/7/9/budget-brief-fiscal-cliff-part-1/
July 9, 2012 - ...Deficit, Military & Security, Taxes & Revenue
Blog - /blog/2012/06/28/supreme-court-upholds-much-affordable-care-act/
June 28, 2012 - Today the Supreme Court upheld nearly all provisions of the Affordable Care Act, the health care reform legislation also referred to as Obamacare. The most controversial part of the law — the in...
Blog - /blog/2012/06/27/where-are-we-now-budget-prospects-look-dim/
June 27, 2012 - With the end of the current fiscal year rapidly approaching, what many Washington watchers have long predicted appears to be true – Congress will not act on next year’s budget by the Octob...
