Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/04/16/federal-income-tax-receipt-2012/
April 16, 2012 - ...federal tax dollars at work.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/04/15/military-spending-is-misplaced-u-s-priority/
April 15, 2012 - ...federal budget goes to the Pentagon, the government's priorities are out of touch with the pressing problems facing its citizens.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/04/13/fifth-grader-says-im-mad-at-the-government/
April 13, 2012 - "If we had a trillion dollars," dream the youth of Bresee Community Center in Los Angeles, "we would buy materials to build homeless shelters, rehabilitation centers, skate parks and soccer fields."
Blog - /blog/2012/04/11/tax-day-2012-those-pennies-add/
April 11, 2012 - ...federal income tax dollar went to the military, while ...
Blog - /blog/2012/04/02/you-ask-we-answer-how-is-medicare-funded/
April 2, 2012 - Last week we received numerous questions about how Medicare is funded. The questions were brought on by the launch of Tax Day and confusion over why Social Security and Medicare showed up in charts on...
Analysis - /analysis/2012/presidents-budget-fy2013/military/
March 29, 2012 - President Obama’s new budget includes $525 billion for the Department of Defense. Adjusted for inflation, that’s 2.6 percent less than fiscal 2012 levels. That’s the first cut to the...
Analysis - /analysis/2012/presidents-budget-fy2013/health/
March 29, 2012 - ...federal government $897 billion in fiscal year 2013; $530 billion of that will go to Medicare, the federal health insurance program for senior citizens. Health spending is the fastest growing type of ...
Analysis - /analysis/2012/presidents-budget-fy2013/money-in-money-out/
March 29, 2012 - ...federal budget comes from, and where it goes, in the president’s budget request for fiscal year 2013.
Analysis - /analysis/2012/presidents-budget-fy2013/education/
March 29, 2012 - ...federal budget—the strongest support for any type of spending. However, even with the $1.5 billion increase in fiscal 2013, education still will only comprise around 2 percent of total federal s...
Blog - /blog/2012/03/27/clearing-tax-day-confusion/
March 27, 2012 - ...federal income tax dollar. There are two main sources of confusion: First, many people have written to ask why Tax Day ...
Blog - /blog/2012/03/22/where-your-taxes-went/
March 22, 2012 - ...federal government spent each one of your federal income tax dollars in 2011: Once we pay our income taxes, they're designated by the U.S. Treasury as "federal funds," which means Congress and the pre...
Blog - /blog/2012/03/21/budget-process-update-where-are-we-now/
March 21, 2012 - The president submitted his fiscal year 2013 budget request to Congress on Feb. 13. Earlier this week, Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI), chairman of the House Budget Committee, unveiled his draft budget r...
Analysis - /analysis/2012/taxday-2012/
March 21, 2012 - ...federal income tax return is due to the IRS. Where did the federal government spend your income taxes during fiscal year 2011?
Analysis - /analysis/2012/presidents-budget-fy2013/federal-spending-your-state/
March 19, 2012 - ...federal spending on state budgets as well as on state residents, who receive assistance from the programs funded by federal grants. You’ll see that some programs, like Head Start and Temporary ...
Blog - /blog/2012/03/12/you-ask-we-answer-how-much-aid-do-we-give-to-foreign-countries/
March 12, 2012 - ...federal budget, or $56 billion in President Obama’s 2013 budget request. That money goes toward global poverty alleviation, including a contribution ...
Blog - /blog/2012/03/07/cut_spending/
March 8, 2012 - In a recent blog my colleague Mattea noted that a February poll by the Hill of likely voters found that the top priority for 45 percent of respondents was "job creation." In close second, with 40 perc...
Blog - /blog/2012/03/06/data-wednesda-per-capita/
March 7, 2012 - The latest Data Wednesday explains what per capita data is, how it's calculated, and why you'd want to use it. Using food stamp spending as an example, we see how per capita spending figures are usefu...
Blog - /blog/2012/03/05/answering-your-questions-is-social-security-part-of-the-federal-budget/
March 5, 2012 - ...federal spending. If Social Security is funded by a dedicated source—your payroll taxes, also called FICA—then shouldn’t Social Security be shown separately from other kinds of feder...
Blog - /blog/2012/03/01/job-creation-in-the-budget/
March 1, 2012 - Likely voters said their top priority for President Obama’s 2013 budget was job creation, according to a poll conducted last month by The Hill. The president released his fiscal 2013 budget on F...
Analysis - /analysis/2012/presidents-budget-fy2013/revenues/
Feb. 29, 2012 - ...federal tax revenue have shifted over time. Corporate income taxes are projected to make up only 12 percent of tax revenues in 2013. But in past years, corporate taxes comprised a much larger share of...
