Article - /pressroom/articles/2018/04/16/Forget-Work-Requirements/
April 16, 2018 - ...housing subsidies — to work.
Analysis - /analysis/2018/tax-day-2018/tax-day-2018-notes-and-sources/
March 22, 2018 - Tax Day shows how your individual income taxes were spent. Those are a portion of the taxes withheld from your paycheck, and due this year on April 18 (not April 15, as usual).
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/2018/03/21/15-years-Iraq/
March 21, 2018 - First, the economic costs: According to estimates by the Costs of War project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, the war on terror has co...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2018/02/27/Pentagon-Devours-Budget/
Feb. 27, 2018 - Imagine for a moment a scheme in which American taxpayers were taken to the cleaners to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars and there was barely a hint of criticism or outrage.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2018/02/27/Pentagon-Budget-Corporate-Welfare/
Feb. 27, 2018 - Imagine for a moment a scheme in which American taxpayers were taken to the cleaners to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars and there was barely a hint of criticism or outrage. Imagine a...
Analysis - /analysis/2018/trumps-fy2019-budget-request-has-massive-cuts-nearly-everything-military/
Feb. 12, 2018 - The president's priorities are clear: ever-increasing funds for the Pentagon, nuclear weapons and Homeland Security, and massive cuts to almost everything else.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2018/01/25/Dark-Money-at-Pentagon/
Jan. 25, 2018 - Researchers have discovered trillions of dollars in unexplained military spending. We might never find out where it went.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2017/12/05/Tax-Plan-Medicare-Medicaid-Social-Security-Cuts/
Dec. 5, 2017 - While the Senate and House versions of the highly unpopular GOP tax bill are being reconciled, it's important to remember that the two have one thing in common: adding significantly to the national de...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2017/12/05/Marketplace-TaxPlan-Debt-1trillion/
Dec. 5, 2017 - We get down to the differences between the Senate and House versions of the tax bill, and debt created is one of those differences. Also included is the number of tax brackets, the alternative minimum...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2017/11/13/What-Else-Tax-Cuts-Richest-1-Percent-Buy/
Nov. 13, 2017 - Basic facts remain murky for a public trying to understand what this tax plan means: how much can $1 billion buy?
Analysis - /analysis/2017/what-else-could-tax-cut-richest-1-buy-50-state-perspective/
Nov. 10, 2017 - The richest one percent – with average incomes of $2 million – will collectively get $72 billion in tax cuts in 2018 under the Trump plan. What else could that pay for?
Analysis - /analysis/2017/protecting-our-communities-states-guide-demilitarizing-brighter-future/
July 20, 2017 - U.S. military spending, with its major focus on exerting U.S. influence and dominance overseas, has an analog here at home: spending on policing, incarceration, and immigration enforcement.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2017/04/18/10-main-ways-gov-spends-your-tax-dollars/
April 18, 2017 - Federal government spending is closing in on $4 trillion a year. Even though a new administration is promising a wave of change, it’s still going to require a lot of money to keep the count...
Analysis - /analysis/2017/militarized-budget-2017/
April 3, 2017 - In 2016, the "militarized" budget amounted to 64 percent of discretionary spending.
Analysis - /analysis/2017/tax-day-2017/tax-day-2017-notes-and-sources/
March 28, 2017 - Tax Day 2017: How we did it.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2017/03/17/Trump-order-downsized-government/
March 17, 2017 - President Donald Trump issued an executive order on "a Comprehensive Plan for Reorganizing the Executive Branch" today.
Analysis - /analysis/2017/national-priorities-project-statement-trump-fy-2018-budget-proposal/
March 16, 2017 - ...Housing & Urban Development (13% cut); Agriculture Department (21% cut); and Health & Human Services (16% cut). ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2017/03/16/what-got-cut-trumps-budget-proposal/
March 16, 2017 - The White House released its “skinny budget,” a simplified version of the administration’s federal budget proposal for the 2018 fiscal year. It differs radically from President Obama...
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.
