Blog - /blog/2012/09/13/faces-budget/
Sept. 13, 2012 - This fall we're launching the incredible stories of Americans across the country in a project called Faces of the Budget. National Priorities Project has been gathering the stories of every-day people...
Blog - /blog/2012/09/12/voter-guide-democrats-federal-budget/
Sept. 12, 2012 - Last week, on the heels of the Republican convention, my colleague Chris Hellman wrote here about the Republican Party platform and its implications for the federal budget. With the Democratic convent...
Video - /videos/2012/9/10/voter-guide-federal-spending/
Sept. 10, 2012 - ...Military & Security, Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net, Taxes & Revenue
Blog - /blog/2012/09/10/top-6-questions-ask-candidates/
Sept. 10, 2012 - This election season, National Priorities Project is launching a suite of materials to arm voters with crucial information about what's at stake in November. And part of being informed is knowing what...
Analysis - /analysis/2012/election-2012-voter-guide/fact-sheet-federal-spending/
Sept. 7, 2012 - How big are budget deficits and what should be done?
Analysis - /analysis/2012/election-2012-voter-guide/fact-sheet-military-spending/
Sept. 7, 2012 - ...military budget getting bigger or getting cut? This one-pager covers the hotly-debated status of military spending.
Analysis - /analysis/2012/election-2012-voter-guide/
Sept. 7, 2012 - National Priorities Project's suite of resources for the 2012 election: A comparison of the presidential candidates on 12 key issues, plus fact sheets with crucial background information on Medicare, ...
Analysis - /analysis/2012/election-2012-voter-guide/voter-guide-2012-obama-and-romney-issues/
Sept. 7, 2012 - National Priorities Project compares the candidates on 12 key issues.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/09/07/fact-checking-obamas-speech/
Sept. 7, 2012 - TRUE – “After two wars that have cost us thousands of lives and over a trillion dollars…” The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost more than $1.37 trillion, according to t...
Blog - /blog/2012/09/05/president-obama-and-romneyryan-deficits/
Sept. 5, 2012 - A few weeks ago, with the announcement of Rep. Paul Ryan as Gov. Romney’s running mate, we wrote about how the two presidential candidates represent starkly different visions for this country in...
Video - /videos/2012/8/23/bush-era-tax-cut-question-and-answer/
Aug. 23, 2012 - ...Military & Security, Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net, Taxes & Revenue
Blog - /blog/2012/08/22/report-road-columbus-oh/
Aug. 23, 2012 - President Obama was in Columbus, OH this week, talking about funding for education. Just by coincidence, so was I.NPP, along with Peace Action, sponsored the first of our “Move the Money” ...
Video - /videos/2012/8/14/book-brief-discretionary-budget/
Aug. 14, 2012 - ...Military & Security, Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net
Blog - /blog/2012/08/13/ryan-pick-solidifies-competing-visions-federal-budget-debate/
Aug. 13, 2012 - If there was ever any doubt that the U.S. federal budget would claim center-stage in the 2012 presidential race, it vanished with Mitt Romney's selection of House Budget Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) as the ...
Blog - /blog/2012/07/20/where-are-we-now-pentagon-spending-and-sequestration/
July 23, 2012 - The week of July 16 was a big one in Washington for Pentagon watchers. The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to approve the fiscal year 2013 Defense Appropriations bill, while the House Ar...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/07/18/four-spending-myths-keeping-us-from-recovery/
July 18, 2012 - We’re at the edge of the cliff of deficit disaster! National security spending is being, or will soon be, slashed to the bone! Obamacare will sink the ship of state. Each of these cl...
Video - /videos/2012/7/9/budget-brief-fiscal-cliff-part-1/
July 9, 2012 - ...Military & Security, Taxes & Revenue
Video - /videos/2012/6/25/budget-brief-time-for-a-new-budget/
June 25, 2012 - ...Military & Security, Taxes & Revenue
Video - /videos/2012/6/18/budget-brief-jobs-and-the-pentagon/
June 18, 2012 - ...Military & Security, Taxes & Revenue
Blog - /blog/2012/06/18/you-ask-we-answer-sequestration-and-pentagon/
June 18, 2012 - C. Chandler of Newcastle, WA, asks, “I keep hearing how bad these automatic spending cuts will be for the Pentagon. Will any other programs get cut?”We get a LOT of questions about the aut...