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.
Analysis - /analysis/2014/move-the-money/
May 20, 2014 - ...federal budget, while building the capacity of colleagues and allies to join you!
Blog - /blog/2014/05/19/npps-work-spotlight-debt-deficit/
May 19, 2014 - ...federal budget research content into eight issue areas. This week, we bring you key highlights on federal education spending.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2014/05/17/is-welfare-broken/
May 17, 2014 - ...Budget Committee’s nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, the total amount spent by the more than eighty federal welfare programs totaled approximately $1.03 trillion, and the fed...
Blog - /blog/2014/05/12/federal-budget-process-taxes-spending-debt-and-deficit/
May 13, 2014 - Federal Budget 101, one of NPP's most popular resources, gets an update. Find out what's new.
Blog - /blog/2014/05/12/npps-work-spotlight-budget-process/
May 12, 2014 - ...federal budget research content into eight issue areas. This week, we bring you key steps in the federal budget process.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2014/05/10/big-money-tax-breaks/
May 10, 2014 - ...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/2014/05/05/npps-work-spotlight-taxes-and-revenue/
May 5, 2014 - ...federal budget research content into eight issue areas. This week, we bring you key highlights on taxes and revenue.
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.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2014/05/01/jo-comerford-stepping-down/
May 1, 2014 - After six years of leading Northampton-based National Priorities Project to international acclaim that included the nomination for a Nobel Peace Prize, Jo Comerford is stepping down as executive direc...
Blog - /blog/2014/04/29/npp-board-chair-announces-leadership-transition/
April 30, 2014 - Jo Comerford, NPP's executive director since 2008, will step down from her role at the end of May. She will be succeeded by Douglas J. Hall, Ph.D., the current director of the Economic Analysis and Re...
Blog - /blog/2014/04/28/npps-work-spotlight-transparency-and-data/
April 28, 2014 - ...federal budget research content into eight issue areas. This week, we bring you key highlights on NPP's work to make the federal budget more transparent.
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.
Blog - /blog/2014/04/22/npps-work-spotlight-federal-education-spending/
April 22, 2014 - ...federal budget research content into eight issue areas. This week, we bring you key highlights on federal education spending.
Analysis - /analysis/2014/big-money-tax-breaks/tax-breaks-notes-and-sources/
April 18, 2014 - ...federal budget process and be published as part of the annual President’s budget request. However, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) does not provide times series data for these estimat...
Analysis - /analysis/2014/big-money-tax-breaks/exposing-big-money-tax-breaks/
April 18, 2014 - ...federal government, who benefits, and how you can influence the debate in Washington.
Analysis - /analysis/2014/big-money-tax-breaks/complete-data-on-tax-breaks/
April 18, 2014 - Download data and explore the cost of every tax break every year from 1974 to the present.
Blog - /blog/2014/04/16/millennial-perspective-title-x-vital-efficient-and-largely-unknown/
April 16, 2014 - While many Americans probably haven’t heard of Title X, it plays an integral role in our public health system, particularly for low-income and uninsured patients.
Blog - /blog/2014/04/15/loopholes-why-our-tax-code-regressive/
April 15, 2014 - Seemingly, corporations and the most wealthy have found a way to pay taxes on a regressive scale (the more you earn, the smaller percentage paid) within a progressive structure. But how?
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...
