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...
Blog - /blog/2012/06/11/you-ask-we-answer-debunking-federal-budget-myths/
June 11, 2012 - Bob from Vacaville, California, wrote in to ask us for some fact checking. He said he hears all the time that the size of the federal government has ballooned under President Obama, and wondered if th...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/06/06/how-to-close-the-budget-deficit-without-raising/
June 6, 2012 - ...deficits, though many people outside Washington may not have heard about this possible solution. While federal spending and budget deficits are widely covered in the news, it’s rarely mentioned...
Blog - /blog/2012/06/01/peoples-guide-to-the-debt-ceiling/
June 1, 2012 - Recently the notion of the "debt ceiling" has been appearing in the news. It's making a comeback after spending months in the spotlight last summer, when the federal government nearly shut down as fed...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/05/24/us-defense-cuts-hit-home-at-ohio-tank-plant/
May 24, 2012 - Jeff Bingman
Blog - /blog/2012/05/15/knowledge-power-and-you-dont-have-take-my-word-it/
May 15, 2012 - This week we announced the release of our new book A People’s Guide to the Federal Budget, and in yesterday’s blog post we admitted to being idealists: A book can change the world, we said...
