Blog - /blog/2012/08/15/data-story-funding-school-districts/
Aug. 15, 2012 - The start of the new school year is just around the corner. Funding for education is a key issue this budget year, since budget cuts at all levels of government threaten funding for public schools.
Blog - /blog/2012/08/13/ryan-pick-solidifies-competing-visions-federal-budget-debate/
Aug. 13, 2012 - ...federal budget would claim center-stage in the 2012 presidential race, it vanished with Mitt Romney's selection of House Budget Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) as the GOP Vice Presidential nominee. Although Mi...
Video - /videos/2012/8/6/book-brief-your-tax-dollars-at-work/
Aug. 6, 2012 - ...federal program too. Health Care, Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net, Taxes & Revenue
Blog - /blog/2012/08/01/where-are-we-now-congress-white-house-reach-agreement-temporary-spending-bill/
Aug. 2, 2012 - On July 31 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) announced that they had reached an agreement on a temporary spending bill – known as a “continuing...
Blog - /blog/2012/07/20/where-are-we-now-pentagon-spending-and-sequestration/
July 23, 2012 - The week of July 16 was a big one in Washington for Pentagon watchers. The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to approve the fiscal year 2013 Defense Appropriations bill, while the House Ar...
Analysis - /analysis/2012/untold-story-deficits-washington/
July 19, 2012 - ...federal government had a balanced budget and projected surpluses for years to come. Fast forward a decade, and Washington runs steep budget deficits while news media report that federal spending is ou...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/07/17/what-do-we-need-to-know-about-federal-budget/
July 17, 2012 - ...Federal Budget.
Blog - /blog/2012/07/09/you-ask-we-answer-how-will-supreme-court-decision-change-medicaid/
July 9, 2012 - Since the Supreme Court ruled on the Affordable Care Act – also known as Obamacare – there have been lots of questions about Medicaid: How it's funded, what the Supreme Court decision mean...
Blog - /blog/2012/07/02/you-ask-we-answer-whats-block-grant-and-why-nuns-care/
July 2, 2012 - Karen from Colorado asks us, “What’s a block grant?” She said she’s been hearing that phrase a lot without knowing what it means – or if it’s important. It’s ...
Blog - /blog/2012/06/28/supreme-court-upholds-much-affordable-care-act/
June 28, 2012 - Today the Supreme Court upheld nearly all provisions of the Affordable Care Act, the health care reform legislation also referred to as Obamacare. The most controversial part of the law — the in...
Blog - /blog/2012/06/27/where-are-we-now-budget-prospects-look-dim/
June 27, 2012 - With the end of the current fiscal year rapidly approaching, what many Washington watchers have long predicted appears to be true – Congress will not act on next year’s budget by the Octob...
Blog - /blog/2012/06/18/you-ask-we-answer-sequestration-and-pentagon/
June 18, 2012 - C. Chandler of Newcastle, WA, asks, “I keep hearing how bad these automatic spending cuts will be for the Pentagon. Will any other programs get cut?”We get a LOT of questions about the aut...
Blog - /blog/2012/06/08/future-federal-spending-transparency-part-one-recoverygov/
June 14, 2012 - ...federal stimulus law, which required 28 federal agencies to spend hundreds of billions of ...
Video - /videos/2012/6/8/national-priorities-project-backyard-budget-mobile/
June 8, 2012 - ...federal-budget. We're seeking funding for the mobile piece of NPP's Backyard Budget project, a new suite of online tools that make understanding the U.S. federal budget easier than ever. Our entry wil...
Blog - /blog/2012/06/08/introducing-backyard-budget/
June 8, 2012 - The Challenge NPP is participating in the Knight News Challenge, seeking funding for the mobile piece of our new Backyard Budget project. Please help us strengthen our proposal by reading it and telli...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/05/22/on-the-war-path-the-nearly-1-trillion-national-sec/
May 22, 2012 - Recent months have seen a flurry of headlines about
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/05/22/just-how-much-does-washington-spend-on-national-se/
May 22, 2012 - The Pentagon base budget of $530 billion is only
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/05/22/one-trillion-for-defense/
May 22, 2012 - Recent months have seen a flurry of headlines about cuts (often called “threats”) to the U.S. defense budget. Last week, lawmakers in the House of Representatives even passed a bill that was meant to ...
Blog - /blog/2012/05/21/you-ask-we-answer-funding-veterans-plus-military/
May 21, 2012 - ...federal budget numbers don't combine funding for veterans with military spending, since they're both part of a larger national security category.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/05/10/money-spent-on-war-in-iraq/
May 10, 2012 - CostOfWar.com is a project maintained by the National Priorities Project. It analyses federal data on spending in the war in Iraq, and produces a running counter of . Over the past five years, US tax...
