Blog - /blog/2010/12/08/ill-see-your-cr-and-raise-you-one-omnibus/
Dec. 8, 2010 - In the topsy-turvy world that is Washington, D.C., these days, Congress is struggling to find a way to fulfill its primary function -- pass a budget.The government is currently being funded by a “cont...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/12/08/congress-bumbles-forward-on-budgeting/
Dec. 8, 2010 - The good folks at the National Priorities Project have a rundown on what's happening with budgeting and spending this week:
Blog - /blog/2010/11/30/dollars-and-sense-nuclear-weapons/
Nov. 30, 2010 - In Prague last April, President Obama raised the world’s hopes with his speech calling for a “nuclear free future.” Since then, his Administration has made non-proliferation – preventing the spread of...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/11/29/wikileaks-demistifying-deplomacy/
Nov. 29, 2010 - Compared to the kind of secret cables that WikiLeaks has just shared with the world, everyday public statements from government officials are exercises in make-believe. In a democracy, people have a r...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/11/21/tomgram-david-swanson-all-war-all-the-time/
Nov. 21, 2010 - These last years of blissful peace have left Republican Congressman Howard P. "Buck" McKeon, soon to be the new chair of the House Armed Services Committee, in a true panic. How, he wonders, will a st...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/11/20/the-grinch-who-stole-xmas-as-holidays-approach-rep/
Nov. 20, 2010 - (NATIONAL) -- It may not be a great holiday season for some 5 million out of work Americans - and their spouses and children - who's unemployment benefits are about to run out.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/11/19/town-meeting-agrees-to-question-war-spending/
Nov. 19, 2010 - Town Meeting has endorsed an ongoing public dialogue about how Amherst tax dollars are being used to fund wars overseas, even as a student representative from the University of Massachusetts told the ...
Blog - /blog/2010/11/16/all-hands-debt-entering-critical-debate-over-federal-deficit-reduction/
Nov. 16, 2010 - Last week the Co-Chairmen of the President's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform -- former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson and former White House Chief-of-Staff Erskine Bowles -- rele...
Blog - /blog/2010/11/15/unraveling-dc-speak-abcs-terminology-high-stakes-world-federal-budgeting/
Nov. 15, 2010 - This week members of Congress return to Capitol Hill for their “lame duck” session. If you’re wondering about the phrase, “lame ducks” are those members who either lost their election (or did not seek...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/11/14/tomgram-engelhart-war-to-horizon/
Nov. 14, 2010 - ...housing" for embassy personnel is not to be completed until sometime in 2014, approximately three years after President Obama's July 2011 Afghan drawdown is set to begin, and that $511 million is part...
Blog - /blog/2010/11/09/work-lame-duck/
Nov. 9, 2010 - Congress is scheduled to return on November 15 for what is known as a lame duck session – a post-election period when members who have been voted out of office return to Washington to continue work pr...
Blog - /blog/2010/11/03/remembering-recovery-november-3-federal-budget-its-ours-own-it/
Nov. 3, 2010 - NPP very recently updated all its Federal Priorities Database expenditures and indicators to the state level with the latest data available. We invite you to use the database – especially if you want ...
Blog - /blog/2010/10/27/after-mid-terms-budget/
Oct. 27, 2010 - With Election Day just around the corner, the question on the minds of many people is “what’s going to happen in Washington?” Regardless of the outcome of Tuesday’s elections, members of Congress will...
Blog - /blog/2010/10/22/social-securitys-flat-line/
Oct. 22, 2010 - Yesterday, the Social Security Administration released an extraordinary amount of data – all the way to the ZIP code-level – focused on Social Security beneficiaries (categorized by the government wit...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/22/congressional-candidates-face-off-in-barnstable/
Oct. 22, 2010 - As the four men and one woman running for US Representative of the 10th Congressional District took to the stage, the audience erupted in cheers and chants for their chosen candidate.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/17/taxpayer-invoice-might-change-the-debate-in-dc/
Oct. 17, 2010 - ...Housing Agency.At the federal level, there are several nonprofit groups that have similar online calculators, including the National Priorities Project (www.nationalpriorities.org//taxchart/2010).Stev...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/16/changing-the-nations-spending-priorities-from-war-/
Oct. 16, 2010 - ...housing, health care, education, jobs creation and more. In fact, the $720 million spent EACH DAY on the Iraq war is enough to hire 12,478 elementary school teachers!At the beginning of the 10th year ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/12/debunking-the-ridiculousness-of-the-pverty-draft-l/
Oct. 12, 2010 - A multi-cultural military, for a multi-cultural country. Let's not let extremists frame the topic.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/08/one-nation-uniting-for-jobs-not-war/
Oct. 8, 2010 - His always-identifiable, once-in-a-generation voice booming across the sun-drenched National Mall, the legendary actor-activist Harry Belafonte evoked the words of his long-ago friend and colleague, M...
Blog - /blog/2010/10/01/deficit-whats-deficit/
Oct. 1, 2010 - The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines “deficit” to mean “a deficiency in amount or quality.” When it comes to the federal budget “deficit,” it’s specifically about the amount of money in the U.S. Tre...
