Analysis - /analysis/2010/charts-update-april-26-2010/
April 26, 2010 - National Priorities Project has updated its Federal Budget 101: Budget Charts with data from the FY2011 budget.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/22/guns-vs-butter-2010/
April 22, 2010 - See if you can identify the bleeding heart liberal who said this:
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/16/moyers-on-the-cost-of-war/
April 16, 2010 - In his closing essay this week Bill Moyers talks about Binghamton, New York's Mayor Matt Ryan and his effort to make manifest the costs of war to his town and its citizens. The mayor has installed a "...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/01/where-did-your-2009-federal-income-tax-dollars-go/
April 1, 2010 - NORTHAMPTON, Mass. - April 1 - As April 15, 2010 approaches, taxpayers can take stock of how the federal government spent each of their 2009 federal income tax dollars. In its annual release, Where di...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/27/defense-budget-after-afghanistan-and-iraq-withdraw/
March 27, 2010 - ...deficits will force them.Right now, neither Republicans nor Democrats in Congress are inclined to make serious cuts for fear of being called weak on defense. Without a war, however, members of Congres...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/10/national-priorities-project-releases-fy2011-budget/
March 10, 2010 - ...deficits.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/01/is-military-keynesianism-the-solution/
March 1, 2010 - The United States is currently preparing to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan by summer 2010. Military contractors, deeply integrated into the U.S. economy, will continue to prosper and pro...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/02/21/national-priorities-project-helps-consumers-grasp-/
Feb. 21, 2010 - ...deficits, and the country will see larger deficits cumulatively as those federal stimulus funds continue to be used up. The Obama administration has also included a cap on domestic spending programs t...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/10/20/three-cheers-for-the-war-dividend/
Oct. 20, 2009 - ...deficit spending. The 48 governors and state legislatures now struggling with budget deficits should stop complaining and simply be grateful for their ever smaller slices of the federal pie. Between 2...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/07/29/obama-defends-record-on-economy/
July 29, 2009 - ...deficit without slowing the recession or job losses, with 45 percent saying they thought Mr. Obama had averted a worse crisis. The president mentioned that he saw people holding signs protesting his a...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/07/16/national-priorities-project-tallies-cost-of-war-th/
July 16, 2009 - ...deficit in half," notes Jo Comerford, Executive Director, National Priorities Project. President Obama's FY 2010 budget calls for an additional $130 billion in war spending, meaning that the U.S. will...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/02/08/spending-1-trillion-hard-to-fathom-for-some-lawmak/
Feb. 8, 2009 - ...deficit, he points to last fall, when Congress passed a massive bank bailout bill that pushed the deficit into $1 trillion territory. He said the stimulus money will help prevent the deficit from shoo...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2008/03/18/five-years-of-war-billions-squandered-opportunitie/
March 18, 2008 - ...deficits, threatening cuts in health care, education and other services, and increased taxes. The cumulative deficit of these 22 states and D.C. is $38-$40 billion. In contrast, these states and the D...
Analysis - /analysis/2008/the-presidents-budget-fy2009/
Feb. 6, 2008 - The administration released its fiscal year 2009 $3 trillion budget request on Monday, February 5. An overview of the budget proposal along with state-level breakdowns on selected programs are availab...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2007/02/07/bush-congress-tackle-shifts-in-spending/
Feb. 7, 2007 - ...deficit has left behind an growing pile of national debt, which now stands at $8.7 trillion — roughly $3 trillion larger than when Bush took office in 2001. The interest on that debt alone will chew t...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2006/12/07/report-tough-time-far-from-over-for-states/
Dec. 7, 2006 - ...deficit. For many, it was their third or even fourth year of shortfalls. States have been able to make up the shortfalls with a combination of federal aid, including stimulus funds, borrowing, selling...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2006/11/20/all-war-all-the-time/
Nov. 20, 2006 - ...deficit into a Saddam-Hussein-style bogeyman. While the goal of many of those promoting this vision of deficit terror may have been intent on getting Wall Street's fingers into our Social Security sa...
Analysis - /analysis/2004/the-presidents-budget-fy2005/
Feb. 11, 2004 - The President's Budget: Impact on the States provides a state-by-state breakdown showing what each state woul
