Blog - /blog/2011/06/28/consumer-protection-who-needs-its-house-appropriations-committee/
June 28, 2011 - If you're like most humans, when you see “Appropriations Committee Releases Fiscal Year 2012 Financial Services Appropriations Bill” your eyes probably wander to see if there's any grass growing or pa...
Blog - /blog/2011/06/24/field-notes-creating-change-washington/
June 24, 2011 - Earlier this week I went to Washington, D.C. for the international conference of RESULTS, a nonpartisan organization working to end hunger and poverty by empowering individuals to exercise their perso...
Blog - /blog/2011/06/10/congress-taking-food-poor-women-and-children-save-few-bucks/
June 10, 2011 - ...Federal BudgetWell...maybe. The actual answer is complicated. Although that might be an a reasonable conclusion to draw if you recently read that Congress was planning to slash more than $832 million ...
Blog - /blog/2011/05/31/us-security-spending-911/
May 31, 2011 - ...federal spending on defense and homeland security since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The key findings of the report were:The United States has spent more than $7.6 trillion on defense ...
Analysis - /analysis/2011/us-security-spending-since-911/
May 26, 2011 - The killing of Osama Bin Laden by U.S. special forces prompted a great many questions about the continued U.S. war in Afghanistan, and how much the United States has spent on “security” si...
Blog - /blog/2011/05/12/house-spending-levels-cut-everyoneexcept-defense/
May 12, 2011 - Yesterday the House Appropriations Committee released its 302(b) allocations for Fiscal Year 2012. These numbers reflect the amount of spending each appropriations subcommittee will have for the progr...
Blog - /blog/2011/05/09/biden-group-senate-get-serious-about-budget/
May 9, 2011 - ...federal budget, while Vice President Joseph Biden holds a second high-level meeting with leading congressional figures on the budget.Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) is likely to re...
Blog - /blog/2011/05/04/out-latest-webinar-hitting-debt-ceiling/
May 4, 2011 - Our latest webinar Hitting the Debt Ceiling is a 45-minute presentation (with Q&A) that will introduce people to the current debate in Washington related to raising the legal limit on the U.S. nat...
Analysis - /analysis/2011/presidents-budget-fy2012/defining-fy2012-budget-debate/
April 20, 2011 - House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s “Path for Prosperity” and the Congressional Progressive Caucus’s (CPC) “People’s Budget” are more than competing b...
Blog - /blog/2011/04/14/continuing-resolutions-7-and-8-finale/
April 14, 2011 - td p { margin-bottom: 0in; }p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }a:link { } Friday, April 8, the House of Representatives and the Senate worked until almost midnight to draft and pass legislation to keep the g...
Analysis - /analysis/2011/analysis-fiscal-year-2011-budget-agreement/
April 13, 2011 - ...federal government for the last six months of Fiscal Year (FY) 2011, which ends on September 30, 2011. The agreement is actually two bills – a seven day Continuing Resolution to allow time for t...
Blog - /blog/2011/04/11/congress-president-agree-fy2011-spending-plan/
April 11, 2011 - Late Friday night, Democratic and Republican congressional leaders and President Obama reached agreement on a spending bill that will fund the last six months of Fiscal Year 2011, which ends on Septem...
Analysis - /analysis/2011/presidents-budget-chairmans-plan/
April 6, 2011 - ...federal programs like Social Security and Medicare.
Analysis - /analysis/2011/taxday-2011/revenues-and-borrowing-faq/
March 22, 2011 - ...Federal Funds, Trust Funds, debt, deficits and more.
Analysis - /analysis/2011/taxday-2011/revenues/
March 22, 2011 - ...federal revenue with a comparison of individual and corporate income taxes.
Blog - /blog/2011/03/18/continuing-resolution-number-6-end2/
March 18, 2011 - The Senate passed a sixth Continuing Resolution on March 17, 2011, which cuts an additional $6 billion from the Fiscal Year 2011 budget. The FY 2011 year ends September 30, 2011 and Republican leaders...
Blog - /blog/2011/03/11/states-continue-feel-recessions-impact/
March 11, 2011 - A new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) has updated data about the impact of the continued struggling economy on state budgets. According to CBPP's latest analysis, 44 stat...
Blog - /blog/2011/03/08/what-heck-does-federal-budget-have-do-michigan/
March 8, 2011 - I had the real privilege of speaking at the Michigan Forum on Jobs and Human Needs on Saturday, March 6, 2001. Sponsored by a great mix of labor, faith, peace and student groups, the event was held in...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2011/03/06/forum-held-on-war-spending/
March 6, 2011 - A local push for a change in federal tax spending. A local forum addressed concerns about the way your tax dollars are being spent on the national level. The gathering was at Lansing's Central United ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2011/03/05/leaders-discuss-how-federal-budget-cuts-affect-mic/
March 5, 2011 - ...federal budgetand how it's affecting people in Michigan.
