Blog - /blog/2014/10/22/what-has-us-spent-fighting-ebola/
Oct. 22, 2014 - What has the U.S. spent fighting Ebola? It seems nobody really knows. One thing we do know: it’s not a lot.
Blog - /blog/2014/09/24/millennial-perspective-promise-participatory-budgeting/
Sept. 24, 2014 - NPP Executive Director Doug Hall will present at the Participatory Budgeting Conference taking place in San Francisco on September 25-27 on how to influence the federal budget process. In honor o...
Blog - /blog/2014/09/22/congress-passes-spending-bill-top-three-takeaways/
Sept. 22, 2014 - Congress has settled how the government will spend billions of dollars over the next couple of months. From Syria to our own homegrown border crisis, here’s what you need to know.
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/2014/09/16/notsofast-americamustknow-whenwillitend/
Sept. 16, 2014 - In the wake of President Obama’s speech to the nation last Wednesday, and with a bill in Congress today authorizing further military action against ISIS, we are left with several troubling quest...
Analysis - /analysis/2014/voters-guides-2014/
Sept. 4, 2014 - Our Voter’s Guides give you the low-down on our federal government’s role in vital systems we all care about, including education, health care, and the military, as well as how we can pay ...
Blog - /blog/2014/08/19/15-trillion-and-counting-what-new-involvement-iraq-means-federal-spending/
Aug. 19, 2014 - As President Obama allowed a trickle 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 t...
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...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2014/08/08/corporate-inversions-what-they-are/
Aug. 8, 2014 - No doubt you've been hearing about corporate "inversion" lately, whereby a U.S. company merges with an overseas entity, then restructures its operations so that its new home base is in the foreign cou...
Blog - /blog/2014/08/07/deja-vu-all-over-again-can-congress-pass-budget/
Aug. 7, 2014 - With elections looming in November, most observers don’t expect Congress to pass a budget before the October 1 deadline.
Blog - /blog/2014/07/31/now-or-never-congress-struggles-beat-its-do-nothing-rep/
July 31, 2014 - This Congress is on track to be one of the least productive ever, with a full slate of immediate problems still unaddressed.
Blog - /blog/2014/07/01/welcome-lindsay-koshgarian/
July 1, 2014 - NPP welcomes new research director Lindsay Koshgarian.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2014/06/20/six-numbers-Iraq/
June 20, 2014 - Six numbers no one should ever forget about the war in Iraq Dylan Matthews On Thursday, President Obama announced that 300 American military advisers would head to Iraq to assist the government i...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2014/06/06/what-america-could-buy/
June 6, 2014 - An illustration of how billions of dollars in tax loopholes could be used to support other social needs like education, public safety, and infrastructure.
Blog - /blog/2014/06/04/transparency-camp-government-spending-and-data-act/
June 4, 2014 - Federal spending transparency advocates gathered at Transparency Camp 2014 to hear the latest on the DATA Act and how to make it a success.
Blog - /blog/2014/05/27/ceiling-raised-and-real-work-can-begin/
May 27, 2014 - By presenting a bill to raise the government’s borrowing limit until March 2015 with no strings attached, Speaker Boehner finally admitted that the country’s bills must be paid on time.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2014/05/26/troop-levels-afghanistan/
May 26, 2014 - After a surprise trip to Afghanistan yesterday to thank U.S. troops, President Barack Obama is nearing a decision on how and when to let them come home. The conflict has cost the U.S. more than $720 b...
Blog - /blog/2014/05/22/thats-me-my-head-inside-pentagon-really/
May 22, 2014 - On her last day as executive director of National Priorities Project, Jo Comerford tells a couple of her favorite NPP stories and celebrates NPP's next chapter.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2014/05/17/is-welfare-broken/
May 17, 2014 - ...housing, school lunch, Head Start, and the WIC program, grew by 89 percent between 1986 and 2007 (adjusted for population), based on a new report from Robert Moffitt, economist at Johns Hopkins Univer...
Blog - /blog/2014/05/12/npps-work-spotlight-budget-process/
May 12, 2014 - Last month we re-launched a major portion of our website, organizing our federal budget research content into eight issue areas. This week, we bring you key steps in the federal budget ...
