Analysis - /analysis/2012/presidents-budget-fy2013/military/
March 29, 2012 - ...Defense. Adjusted for inflation, that’s 2.6 percent less than fiscal 2012 levels. That’s the first cut to the Pentagon’s base budget in over a decade. The American public is divided ...
Analysis - /analysis/2012/competing-visions/
March 28, 2012 - ...us (CPC). The two budgets offer vastly different visions for the nation, and each uses the president’s budget as a baseline to compare their contrasting proposals. Rep. Ryan reduces tax rates a...
Blog - /blog/2012/03/16/you-ask-we-answer-how-much-do-we-spend-intelligence/
March 19, 2012 - Nancy Albert, of San Juan, Puerto Rico asks how much do we spend on the CIA, and where in the budget would you find that money?The short answer is, we don't know. Now here's the longer answer, which i...
Blog - /blog/2012/02/22/Fiscal-Year-2013-Pentagon-Spending-Request/
Feb. 23, 2012 - ...Defense (DoD) in Fiscal Year 2013, which begins on October 1, 2012. Adjusted for inflation, this is 2.6 percent below FY2012 levels, the ...
Analysis - /analysis/2012/analysis-fiscal-year-2013-pentagon-spending-request/
Feb. 16, 2012 - ...Defense, not including funding for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan or the nuclear weapons activities of the Department of Energy. The Pentagon is seeking ways to reduce spending by $487 bi...
Analysis - /analysis/2012/talking-about-military-spending-and-the-pentagon-budget/
Feb. 8, 2012 - ...used on the immediate and long-term impact of projected Pentagon spending.
Blog - /blog/2012/02/03/Pentagon-Budget-Going-Down/
Feb. 3, 2012 - Last week Defense Secretary Leon Panetta offered up a preview of the Pentagon’s Fiscal Year 2013 budget request. The request for FY2013 is projected at $525 billion for the Pentagon’s annu...
Analysis - /analysis/2012/an-economy-thats-built-to-last-the-2012-state-of-the-union-address/
Jan. 26, 2012 - National Priorities Project takes apart President Obama’s last State of the Union Address in his first term as president.
Blog - /blog/2012/01/13/Pentagons-New-Blueprint/
Jan. 13, 2012 - ...Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army General Martin E. Dempsey – joined by President Obama in a rare visit to the Pentagon – rolled out the milita...
Blog - /blog/2011/11/17/Lets-Make-a-Deal/
Nov. 17, 2011 - ...use Speaker John Boehner tried negotiating ...
Blog - /blog/2011/11/14/Budgeting-by-CR/
Nov. 14, 2011 - ...ust like last year, the new fiscal year began on October 1, 2011 with no federal budget in place. And just like last year, the U.S. government is being funded through a Continuing Resolution (CR) &nda...
Blog - /blog/2011/10/28/data-story-jobs-and-department-defense-procurement/
Oct. 28, 2011 - ...Defense procurement spending and unemployment rates.
Analysis - /analysis/2011/year-end-wrap-up/
Sept. 28, 2011 - September 30th marks the end of the fiscal year for the U.S. Government, and if you've had trouble following events in Washington, you're in good company. NPP pulls together key events of 2011 and off...
Blog - /blog/2011/09/20/cost_of_war/
Sept. 20, 2011 - 10 numbers you need to know: $1.26 Trillion – Total amount appropriated by Congress for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through the end of Fiscal Year 2011 (September 30, 2011) – $797.3 billion for I...
Blog - /blog/2011/09/14/mapping-essential-data/
Sept. 14, 2011 - ...spending and social indicators (e.g., poverty rates, renewable energy usage and enrollment in the State Children's Health ...
Blog - /blog/2011/09/12/debt-ceiling-mach2-the-super-committee/
Sept. 12, 2011 - ...spending cuts over the next 10 years. The rest of the proverbial ...
Blog - /blog/2011/08/16/How-Safe-Are-You/
Aug. 16, 2011 - ...spending on the table, but the debt-ceiling debate finally did. And mild as those projected cuts might have been, last week newly minted Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta was already digging ...
Blog - /blog/2011/08/10/mainers-vote-their-priorities/
Aug. 10, 2011 - In the midst of Congressional debates about debt, budget cuts, and tax increases, a “penny poll” was held in every Maine county asking participants, “How would you like your federal tax dollars spent?...
Blog - /blog/2011/08/01/congress-to-pass-debt-deal/
Aug. 1, 2011 - ...ust 1, just hours away from the deadline for raising the debt-ceiling and avoiding a disastrous U.S. credit default. As this story has unfolded, we've had some laughs, shared some disappointments and ...
Blog - /blog/2011/07/28/precarious-position-anti-poverty-programs/
July 28, 2011 - ...ust 2nd date for default on our federal debt draws near. On one side, House Republicans refuse to raise the debt ceiling without a ...
