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 ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2014/05/10/big-money-tax-breaks/
May 10, 2014 - The federal tax code includes hundreds of tax breaks (called tax expenditures within the federal government) meant to encourage activities that lawmakers deem beneficial to society
Blog - /blog/2014/04/30/government-spending-data-act-and-end-yada-yada/
May 2, 2014 - Congress authorizes spending and yada yada yada, Treasury cuts checks. The DATA Act says we can do better when it comes to tracking government spending.
Blog - /blog/2014/04/23/abandonment-american-student/
April 23, 2014 - Spending cuts to public universities shifts the burden of providing higher education to family bank accounts, despite documented stagnation in median family income.
Analysis - /analysis/2014/big-money-tax-breaks/exposing-big-money-tax-breaks/
April 18, 2014 - Everything you need to know about tax breaks including how much they cost the federal government, who benefits, and how you can influence the debate in Washington.
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...
Blog - /blog/2014/04/09/72000-unemployed-workers-lose-benefits-every-week-congress-does-not-act/
April 9, 2014 - Last week marked three full months that Congress has let long-term unemployment benefits lapse, leaving 2.3 million unemployed workers – who have been unemployed for 6 months or more and have ex...
Blog - /blog/2014/04/07/tax-day-pictures/
April 8, 2014 - The average American taxpayer paid $11,715 in income taxes in 2013. Here's 13 surprising charts that show how the federal government spent those tax dollars.
