Blog - /blog/2022/05/06/beyond-enforcement-paradigm-vision-transformative-budget-us-immigration/
- ...budget proposal on U.S. immigration.
Blog - /blog/2022/04/18/tax-day-2022-we-got-receipts/
- How does our government actually spend our tax dollars? Around Tax Day, it’s fair to wonder. Most of us never find out. But at NPP, we got the receipts.
Blog - /blog/2022/04/13/biden-fy-2023-budget-maintains-trump-era-spending-ice-cbp/
- The Biden administration came into office promising to dismantle Trump’s harmful immigration policies. But we have been dismayed to see violent and deadly immigration enforcement policies c...
Blog - /blog/2022/03/09/whats-fy-2022-budget-deal-military/
- ...budget deal announced today continues a longstanding trend of overfunding the military and underfunding domestic and human needs, providing $782 billion for the miltiary and only $730 billion for...
Blog - /blog/2022/02/07/us-competes-china-what-cost/
- The House passed a sweeping bill to counter China economically, the America COMPETES Act, with $52 billion for fund the production of computer chips. What else could that pay for?
Blog - /blog/2021/10/20/hypocrisy-federal-spending-debate/
- Why is it controversial to spend on social programs but not the Pentagon? Or to subsidize the poor but not the rich?
Blog - /blog/2021/09/21/npp-trade-offs-tool-shows-us-exactly-what-resources-we-could-invest-when-we-divest-ice-cbp/
- Congress has the resources to invest in our community.
Blog - /blog/2021/06/11/osamas-ghost-economics-overextension/
- Twenty years of military quagmire of the Middle East has contributed to the fraying of the U.S. economy even as China has rapidly become the new center of global capital accumulation.
Blog - /blog/2021/06/07/plan-end-poverty-united-states/
- A new congressional resolution asserts it’s not only possible to end poverty, but morally necessary.
Blog - /blog/2021/06/30/americas-nearly-13-trillion-national-security-budget-isnt-making-us-any-safer/
- Pouring more money into endless wars, nuclear weapons, overseas bases, and boondoggle weapons programs won't protect anyone.
Blog - /blog/2021/07/30/dear-us-navy-dont-dump-your-ships-our-oceans/
- For the past 40 years, the U.S. military has turned retired and decommissioned military equipment-- such as ships and tanks-- into artificial reefs.
Blog - /blog/2021/06/24/fight-poverty-cut-pentagon-budget/
- For me, the military wasn’t a way out of poverty. Instead, militarism is why so many of us are poor in the first place.
Blog - /blog/2021/04/30/when-it-comes-climate-does-biden-put-his-money-where-his-mouth/
- Last week the White House convened a virtual Leaders Summit on Climate with forty leaders from the world's largest economies presenting their plans to meet the goals of the 2015 Paris C...
Blog - /blog/2021/04/16/bidens-pentagon-still-trumps-pentagon/
- ...budget proposal last week, President Biden made clear his intention to continue in the footsteps of President Trump. The proposal called for an increase in Pentagon and war spending from $740 bil...
Blog - /blog/2021/04/09/biden-2022-budget-raises-military-spending-past-750-billion/
- ...budget” request. While not a full breakdown, the “skinny budget” offers a critical glimpse at topline discretionary budget spending and speaks volumes about the administration's prio...
Blog - /blog/2020/12/10/us-billionaire-wealth-surges-past-1-trillion-start-pandemic-total-grows-4-trillion/
- Billionaire's wealth growth since March is more than the $908 billion pandemic relief package proposed by a bipartisan group of members of Congres—which has been stalled over Republican concerns...
Blog - /blog/2020/12/17/us-needs-covid-relief-and-renewable-energy-not-space-force/
- Instead of wasting scarce funds on the Space Force, the Biden administration should deploy its diplomats to demilitarize space.
Blog - /blog/2020/12/22/covid-deal-welcome-stopgap-congressional-progressives-aim-much-more-2021/
- The Progressive Caucus has unveiled a legislative agenda designed to meet the scale of the pandemic catastrophe and reduce our vulnerability to future crises.
Blog - /blog/2020/10/19/overhauling-us-foreign-policy-bitter-fights-ahead/
- After Election Day, we can’t just go back to the status quo. On foreign policy especially, movements need to be ready to push a new administration hard.
Blog - /blog/2020/10/12/imagining-years-repair-indigenous-peoples-day/
- The Years of Repair shows how we can transform moments of urgent global crisis into catalysts for demanding and achieving a restorative, progressive vision for the future.
