Blog - /blog/2014/08/20/5-reasons-talk-congress-august/
Aug. 20, 2014 - August recess is the best opportunity to tell Congress your thoughts on Iraq, immigration, corporate taxes, unemployment benefits, and more.
Blog - /blog/2014/08/19/15-trillion-and-counting-what-new-involvement-iraq-means-federal-spending/
Aug. 19, 2014 - ...of troops back into Iraq, and air strikes are expected to continue for weeks or months, Americans are wary about our role in a conflict most of us think we never should have starte...
Blog - /blog/2014/07/02/whats-more-patriotic-investing-home-or-overseas/
July 2, 2014 - ...of how our involvement in conflicts overseas – like responding to crisis in Iraq – defines our country’s priorities.
Blog - /blog/2014/06/25/localizable-federal-budget-data-what-does-your-community-spend-education-iraq-war-foreign-aid-and-debt/
June 26, 2014 - ...cost of the Iraq war to taxpayers in your town? If you could reallocate those tax dollars, what would you buy instead? NPP's easy-to-use, localizable federal budget data can answer these questions and...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2014/06/20/six-numbers-Iraq/
June 20, 2014 - ...of the war in Iraq, and currently it states that the US has spent about $817 billion on the conflict. But that's a fraction of the wear's true, total cost. The Costs of War Project finds that wh...
Blog - /blog/2014/06/18/we-cant-afford-spend-more-money-war-iraq/
June 18, 2014 - ...war in Iraq.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2014/05/26/troop-levels-afghanistan/
May 26, 2014 - ...cost the U.S. more than $720 billion since 2001, according to the National Priorities Project, which studies federal spending.
Analysis - /analysis/2014/fiscal-year-2015-pentagon-budget-analysis/
April 7, 2014 - ...of Defense.
Analysis - /analysis/2014/budget-proposals-2015/
April 1, 2014 - National Priorities Project examines how new budget proposals stack up against what Americans want.
Analysis - /analysis/2014/tax-day-2014/notes-sources/
March 14, 2014 - ...Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the Budget of the United States Government, fiscal year 2014, in the Public Budget Database. Tax Day Categories When OMB publishes federal budget data, it us...
Blog - /blog/2014/03/05/how-would-you-spend-trillion/
March 5, 2014 - Here are the five things you absolutely need to know about President Obama's proposal to spend $3.9 trillion in 2015
Article - /pressroom/articles/2014/03/05/Top-Five-Obama-Budget/
March 5, 2014 - ...of devoting an astonishing 57 percent of discretionary spending to the military. Here are the top five things to know about Obama's budget: 1. Increases Military Spending Excluding war costs, the b...
Analysis - /analysis/2014/president-obamas-fiscal-year-2015-budget/
March 4, 2014 - New budget includes $56 billion in additional spending, relieving sequestration for fiscal 2015.
Blog - /blog/2014/03/04/national-priorities-project-reacts-presidents-fiscal-year-2015-budget/
March 4, 2014 - ...of universal pre-kindergarten education. Here are the highlgihts of what the budget contains.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2014/02/25/cutting-the-army-will-make-it-stronger/
Feb. 25, 2014 - ...of Defense Chuck Hagel has fired a shot across the bow of business-as-usual at the Pentagon by announcing significant cuts in the U.S. Army.
Blog - /blog/2014/02/20/international-open-data-day-2014/
Feb. 20, 2014 - ...of NPP's open data tools.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2014/02/05/Nobel-Peace-Prize-Nomination-MA-Group/
Feb. 5, 2014 - ...of total discretionary spending, discretionary military spending in 2014 dwarfs all other categories of spending. The second highest amount of discretionary spending goes to education, $74bn or 6.4% o...
Blog - /blog/2014/01/23/data-innovation-day-2014/
Jan. 23, 2014 - NPP is proud to celebrate Data Innovation Day 2014 by highlighting our open data tools.
Blog - /blog/2014/01/07/war-poverty-50-years-later/
Jan. 8, 2014 - ...of the War on Poverty, which renewed a commitment to federal funding for programs to help struggling Americans. Here's a list of resources that illustrate how these federal programs are faring 50 year...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/12/30/most-underreported-stories-2013/
Dec. 30, 2013 - ...of BillMoyers.com to weigh in with their choices, including stories they reported on. Here’s what they had to say.
