Blog - /blog/2013/03/29/tax-day-2013-tax-receipts-and-trade-offs/
April 1, 2013 - ...federal programs and reallocate those tax dollars to match your personal priorities.
Video - /videos/2013/3/28/why-budget-and-tax-issues-are-womens-issues-part-1/
March 28, 2013 - ...Budget and Tax Issues Are Women's Issues - Part 1 Special budget brief in partnership with the National Women's Law Center about the effect federal budget decisions have on women. National Priorities ...
Blog - /blog/2013/03/27/see-where-your-taxes-went/
March 27, 2013 - Taxes are due on April 15 – right around the corner – though few Americans know where their taxes actually go. So NPP is launching Tax Day 2013 – a suite of mater...
Analysis - /analysis/2013/taxday-2013/
March 25, 2013 - Find out where your 2012 income taxes went.
Blog - /blog/2013/03/25/march-madness-tale-two-budgets/
March 25, 2013 - ...federal budget, Congress is now wrapping up work on two – the budget for fiscal year 2013, which began back on Oct. 1, 2012, and the first steps in a budget for fiscal 2014, which will begin on ...
Blog - /blog/2013/03/20/there-federal-budget-2013-detailed-updates/
March 20, 2013 - ...federal government is operating on a temporary spending bill called a continuing resolution instead of a real budget for fiscal 2013. That continuing resolution expires on March 27. If lawma...
Blog - /blog/2013/03/11/there-federal-budget-its-even-worse-you-thought/
March 11, 2013 - ...federal budget is almost impossible to follow, so here’s some straight talk about whether or not there’s a federal budget for 2013 and why things are even worse than they seem.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/03/11/policy-priorities-where-is-american-dream/
March 11, 2013 - Once upon a time, the "American Dream" was thought to be life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, as defined by an adequate-paying job, a house, and equal opportunity for a higher standard of life...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/03/06/too-much-money-too-few-results/
March 6, 2013 - WASHINGTON (AP) — Ten years and $60 billion in American taxpayer funds later, Iraq is still so unstable and broken that even its leaders question whether U.S. efforts to rebuild the war-torn nat...
Blog - /blog/2013/03/04/house-bill-funds-government-remainder-year/
March 5, 2013 - ...budget. However, this new legislation did include an actual budget for just two areas of government – Defense and Military Construction-Veterans Affair.
Blog - /blog/2013/03/01/sequestration-and-so-it-begins/
March 4, 2013 - ...federal spending cuts known as sequestration.
Analysis - /analysis/2013/homeland-security-second-defense-department/
Feb. 28, 2013 - ...federal funding for homeland security.
Analysis - /analysis/2013/homeland-security-spending-since-911/
Feb. 28, 2013 - ...federal government has spent on homeland security since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Blog - /blog/2013/02/26/what-sequestration-and-how-will-it-affect-me/
Feb. 26, 2013 - ...federal budget cuts will take effect on Friday. And you've heard the strange-sounding name for these cuts: sequestration. No one thought the cuts would actually take effect, but now – ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/02/26/is-obama-inflating-sequester-impacts/
Feb. 26, 2013 - ...federal spending cuts, known as a sequester, threaten to take effect Friday. President Barack Obama, who has learned a lesson about one-on-one negotiation with congressional Republicans, has taken to ...
Blog - /blog/2013/02/24/sequestrations-havoc/
Feb. 25, 2013 - ...federal investment in the midst of continued economic crisis – especially when sequestration takes meaningful tax reform off the table. Now, just days away, sequestration is on course to fail us...
Analysis - /analysis/2013/sequestration-pentagon-and-states/
Feb. 21, 2013 - ...federal spending cuts known as sequestration and historically high levels of Pentagon spending.
Blog - /blog/2013/02/19/worried-about-spending-dont-forget-revenue/
Feb. 20, 2013 - ...Federal Tax Collections data in the Federal Priorities Database.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/02/20/how-will-sequester-affect-you/
Feb. 20, 2013 - ...budget crisis is facing Washington, but this time around it looks as if there will be no last-minute showdown.
Blog - /blog/2013/02/13/sotu-demands-better-budget/
Feb. 13, 2013 - ...budget and a temporary debt-ceiling suspension with indiscriminate budget cuts threatening critical investments ranging from education to food safety. The State of the Union address failed to acknowle...