Blog - /blog/2014/09/19/peoplesclimate-and-peoples-budget-worthsaving/
Sept. 19, 2014 - Even the Pentagon has called climate change a national security threat. Why do we spend so little on climate change initiatives compared to so much on other programs?
Blog - /blog/2014/09/09/state-smart-cost-military-contracts-your-state-and-election/
Sept. 10, 2014 - ...spending in the states, with a spotlight on the Department of Defense.
Blog - /blog/2014/09/09/spotlight-npps-military-and-war-spending-voter-guides/
Sept. 9, 2014 - ...spending raises serious questiosn for voters in the upcoming November 4 election.
Blog - /blog/2014/08/22/summer-intern-profile-christoph-demers/
Aug. 22, 2014 - ...usy few months from Christoph Demers, NPP's summer research intern.
Blog - /blog/2014/08/14/pick-your-better-border-budget-battle-can-we-reach-deal-border-crisis/
Aug. 14, 2014 - Competing funding proposals to deal with the border crisis express vastly different priorities about border security, refugee assistance, and legal representation, echoing the deep divisions about imm...
Blog - /blog/2014/07/03/give-peace-chance-what-federal-budget-tells-us-about-us-response-isis-and-iraq/
July 8, 2014 - How will the United States choose to respond to instability in Iraq, where ISIS is at the center of renewed conflict?
Blog - /blog/2014/06/24/npp-and-peace-action-hit-road-move-money/
June 23, 2014 - ...spending priorities, and develop strategies for how to change them.
Blog - /blog/2014/06/12/hidden-story-behind-student-loan-debt/
June 12, 2014 - Here's one way we could help Millenials attain higher education without burgeoning student loan debt.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2014/05/26/troop-levels-afghanistan/
May 26, 2014 - ...spending.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2014/05/17/is-welfare-broken/
May 17, 2014 - ...spending on welfare in 2008. That’s more than Social Security, Medicare, or defense. Looking at just the ten largest programs, the report found that the programs have doubled their demand on the...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2014/04/15/where-your-taxes-really-go/
April 15, 2014 - It’s April 15, which means that you’ve paid your tax bill– or you will very soon– and you might be wondering about what exactly the government is going to do with your hard-ear...
Analysis - /analysis/2014/fiscal-year-2015-pentagon-budget-analysis/
April 7, 2014 - ...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 - ...uses several categories of spending called functions, and within those, subfunctions. While NPP uses 13 different budget categories to sort federal spending, these do not correspond to the official go...
Blog - /blog/2014/03/06/pentagons-phony-budget-war/
March 6, 2014 - How the U.S. Military Avoided Budget Cuts, Lied About Doing So, Then Asked for Billions More
Article - /pressroom/articles/2014/03/06/pentagon-phony-budget-war/
March 6, 2014 - ...ushing the panic button, claiming austerity is hollowing out our armed forces and our national security is at risk. That was the message Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel delivered last week when he an...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2014/03/06/breaking-budget-straitjacket/
March 6, 2014 - ...uses revenues outside the appropriations caps to fund the National Housing Trust Fund at $1 billion over 10 years. He continues to reverse the loss of 70,000 rental housing vouchers. (Many low-income ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2014/03/05/Top-Five-Obama-Budget/
March 5, 2014 - ...spending -- even as we withdraw from Afghanistan and research suggests that the American people do not approve of devoting an astonishing 57 percent of discretionary spending to the military. Here ar...
Blog - /blog/2014/03/04/national-priorities-project-reacts-presidents-fiscal-year-2015-budget/
March 4, 2014 - President Obama today released his $3.9 trillion fiscal 2015 budget proposal, a plan that includes new manufacturing institutes, job training, and the president’s signature initiative of univers...
Analysis - /analysis/2014/sequestration-impact-on-military-spending-2013-2014/
March 4, 2014 - ...spending than news reports suggest.
