Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/12/02/budget-matters-the-moment-of-truth/
Dec. 2, 2010 - ...federal government's priorities and how your tax dollars are spent. Using our "Federal Budget 101" website and webinars we bring you vast amounts of information on the federal budget process and how y...
Blog - /blog/2010/11/23/new-npp-series-block/
Nov. 23, 2010 - By Samantha DanaLast week Congress returned to Washington, D.C. for it's “lame duck” session and began their final weeks of law making before the holiday season and the new Congress is inaugurated. Wi...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/11/18/a-deficit-of-common-sense/
Nov. 18, 2010 - ...Budget Deficit," featuring a murderers' row of budget experts across the ideological spectrum. All the activity underscores just how much concerns about the deficit have taken over the Washington conv...
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 - ...budget. Instead, it was a story that slipped out as the midterm election results were coming in and was treated as an event of no importance in the U.S. The Associated Press covered U.S. Ambassador t...
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...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/11/09/npp-launches-new-webinar-jobs-deficits-taxes/
Nov. 9, 2010 - ...Federal Budget 101 - have been huge successes. FB101 is an introduction to federal budget basics. NPP offers it for the majority of people in this country who do not understand the federal budget proc...
Blog - /blog/2010/11/04/jobs-deficits-taxes/
Nov. 4, 2010 - On election night, Democrats and Republicans agreed - it's all about jobs, deficits and taxes.While they agree on the problem, they absolutely disagree on the solutions.And the big question is, what's...
Blog - /blog/2010/11/03/remembering-recovery-november-3-federal-budget-its-ours-own-it/
Nov. 3, 2010 - ...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 a post-election memory of the impa...
Blog - /blog/2010/11/01/framingham-ma-schools-parents-struggle-tough-budget-choices/
Nov. 1, 2010 - ...federal budget process and the impact of the recession on communities. Like most cities and towns in Massachusetts and across the country, Framingham has been experiencing ...
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...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/24/our-national-priorities-the-trend/
Oct. 24, 2010 - ...federal budget with 51% for military. Our current pie charts show 54% of the federal budget pie spent on military. If Obama's FY11 budget request is met, the new pies we'll soon be making will show 57...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/23/npp-fed-budget-bangor-oct-2010/
Oct. 23, 2010 - ...federal budget. Active Community Teach-in sponsored by Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine, 10-9-10, Bangor.
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.
Blog - /blog/2010/10/18/worried-about-deficit-why-not-choose-sustainable-defense/
Oct. 18, 2010 - That’s the message Congressmen Barney Frank (D-MA) and Ron Paul (R-TX), along with 55 of their Capitol Hill colleagues are pushing.On October 13, 2010 they sent a letter to the President’s National Co...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/17/taxpayer-invoice-might-change-the-debate-in-dc/
Oct. 17, 2010 - ...federal income taxes of $2,790 and paid another $2,610 in federal payroll taxes for Social Security and Medicare.He calculated that the largest share of the taxpayer's $5,400 in federal payments went ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/16/changing-the-nations-spending-priorities-from-war-/
Oct. 16, 2010 - ...budget for FY 2011 doesn't reflect those priorities.According to the NPP Report, 59 % of the budget is mandatory spending for the federal government, such as revenues for social security and Medicare ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/14/northampton-passes-resolution-to-bring-the-war-dol/
Oct. 14, 2010 - ...budget. The resolution lists the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001 as $1.07 trillion and points out that Northampton has spent over $114 million funding this budget. The loss of lif...
