Video - /videos/2012/6/18/budget-brief-jobs-and-the-pentagon/
June 18, 2012 - Budget Brief - Jobs and the Pentagon NPP's Chris Hellman looks at the relationship between different types of federal spending and job creation. Education, Health Care, Military & Security, Taxes ...
Blog - /blog/2012/06/18/you-ask-we-answer-sequestration-and-pentagon/
June 18, 2012 - ...Budget Control Act (BCA) of ...
Blog - /blog/2012/06/11/you-ask-we-answer-debunking-federal-budget-myths/
June 11, 2012 - ...federal government has ballooned under President Obama, and wondered if that could be true given all of the budget cuts.
Video - /videos/2012/6/8/national-priorities-project-backyard-budget-mobile/
June 8, 2012 - ...budget-mobile-localizing-the-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 ea...
Blog - /blog/2012/06/08/introducing-backyard-budget/
June 8, 2012 - ...Budget project. Please help us strengthen our proposal by reading it and telling us what you think; you can do this on the News Challenge website. What is Backyard Budget ...
Blog - /blog/2012/06/06/unemployment-and-underemployment/
June 7, 2012 - ...Federal Priorities Database. The chart below compares unemployment rates to underemployment rates. Underemployment is a number that not only counts the unemployed but also counts people no longer look...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/06/06/how-to-close-the-budget-deficit-without-raising/
June 6, 2012 - ...budget deficits, though many people outside Washington may not have heard about this possible solution. While federal spending and budget deficits are widely covered in the news, it’s rarely me...
Blog - /blog/2012/06/04/you-ask-we-answer-can-government-create-jobs/
June 4, 2012 - ...federal government and job creation—that is, if the federal government can, or should, create jobs.
Blog - /blog/2012/06/01/peoples-guide-to-the-debt-ceiling/
June 1, 2012 - ...federal government nearly shut down as federal debt reached the legal limit. (Lawmakers ultimately raised the limit in the eleventh hour.) Currently, it is projected that the federal debt will hit the...
Blog - /blog/2012/05/25/what-happens-when-paycheck-talks/
May 29, 2012 - It’s late Friday afternoon. A young worker sitting at his desk receives his first paycheck. “Oh. Wow,” he exclaims, “My first paycheck!” His eyes move quickly to his take...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/05/25/a_peoples_guide_wamc/
May 25, 2012 - ...Federal Budget covers what every American should know about how our government raises and spends our tax dollars. From coverage of the current conflict in Washington to simple explanations of budget t...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/05/24/us-defense-cuts-hit-home-at-ohio-tank-plant/
May 24, 2012 - Jeff Bingman
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 - ...budget of $530 billion is only
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/05/22/one-trillion-for-defense/
May 22, 2012 - ...budget. Last week, lawmakers in the House of Representatives even passed a bill that was meant to spare national security spending from future cuts by reducing school-lunch funding and other social pr...
Video - /videos/2012/5/21/budget-brief-veterans-benefits/
May 21, 2012 - Budget Brief - Veterans' Benefits Senior research analyst Mattea Kramer discusses federal spending on veterans' benefits as we look ahead to Memorial Day. Health Care, Military & Security, Social ...
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/2012/05/17/a-peoples-guide-to-the-federal-budget/
May 17, 2012 - ...budget battle, National Priorities Project has issued A People's Guide to the Federal Budget
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/05/17/what-priorities-are-being-set-for-our-nation-are-t/
May 17, 2012 - The GOP constantly cries over the debt limit and evokes the “spending
Blog - /blog/2012/05/15/knowledge-power-and-you-dont-have-take-my-word-it/
May 15, 2012 - ...Federal Budget, and in yesterday’s blog post we admitted to being idealists: A book can change the world, we said. But it’s not just because we’re idealists that we think so. Conside...
