Blog - /blog/2014/05/19/npps-work-spotlight-debt-deficit/
May 19, 2014 - Last month we re-launched a major portion of our website, organizing our federal budget research content into eight issue areas. This week, we bring you key highlights on federal educat...
Blog - /blog/2014/05/12/federal-budget-process-taxes-spending-debt-and-deficit/
May 13, 2014 - Federal Budget 101, one of NPP's most popular resources, gets an update. Find out what's new.
Blog - /blog/2014/05/12/npps-work-spotlight-budget-process/
May 12, 2014 - Last month we re-launched a major portion of our website, organizing our federal budget research content into eight issue areas. This week, we bring you key steps in the federal budget ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2014/05/10/big-money-tax-breaks/
May 10, 2014 - The federal tax code includes hundreds of tax breaks (called tax expenditures within the federal government) meant to encourage activities that lawmakers deem beneficial to society
Blog - /blog/2014/05/05/tax-extenders-budget-reform/
May 6, 2014 - The current tax extender debate signals a need for broader tax reform. Our new report shows why.
Blog - /blog/2014/05/05/npps-work-spotlight-taxes-and-revenue/
May 5, 2014 - Last month we re-launched a major portion of our website, organizing our federal budget research content into eight issue areas. This week, we bring you key highlights on taxes and reve...
Blog - /blog/2014/04/28/npps-work-spotlight-transparency-and-data/
April 28, 2014 - Last month we re-launched a major portion of our website, organizing our federal budget research content into eight issue areas. This week, we bring you key highlights on NPP's work to ...
Blog - /blog/2014/04/23/abandonment-american-student/
April 23, 2014 - Spending cuts to public universities shifts the burden of providing higher education to family bank accounts, despite documented stagnation in median family income.
Blog - /blog/2014/04/22/npps-work-spotlight-federal-education-spending/
April 22, 2014 - Last month we re-launched a major portion of our website, organizing our federal budget research content into eight issue areas. This week, we bring you key highlights on federal educat...
Analysis - /analysis/2014/big-money-tax-breaks/exposing-big-money-tax-breaks/
April 18, 2014 - Everything you need to know about tax breaks including how much they cost the federal government, who benefits, and how you can influence the debate in Washington.
Blog - /blog/2014/04/15/loopholes-why-our-tax-code-regressive/
April 15, 2014 - Seemingly, corporations and the most wealthy have found a way to pay taxes on a regressive scale (the more you earn, the smaller percentage paid) within a progressive structure. But how?
Analysis - /analysis/2014/presidents-2015-budget-in-pictures/all-revenue-and-spending-where-money-comes-and-where-money-goes/
April 14, 2014 - This graphic shows how the government brings in revenue - from different types of taxes as well as borrowing - and how it spends money on programs ranging from Medicare to education to the military to...
Blog - /blog/2014/04/07/congress-extend-corporate-tax-breaks-not-unemployment-benefits/
April 7, 2014 - If you want a story about the illogic that rules Washington, look no further than this.
Video - /videos/2014/3/26/united-states-federal-budget-debt-and-deficit/
March 26, 2014 - ...Deficit Budget deficits have declined sharply in recent years, down from 10 percent of the U.S. economy in fiscal 2009, to a projected 3.1 percent in 2015. Over the past 50 years, the budget deficit a...
Analysis - /analysis/2014/federal-spending-your-state-2013-2015/
March 24, 2014 - Funding by state for select federal programs including Head Start, Special Education, and Medicaid.
Analysis - /analysis/2014/presidents-2015-budget-in-pictures/
March 19, 2014 - President Obama recently released his 2015 budget proposal. And budgets are about priorities: What we’re going to spend money on, and how we’re going to raise the money that we’...
Blog - /blog/2014/03/19/presidents-budget-pictures/
March 19, 2014 - Today we released The President's 2015 Budget in Pictures, a series of colorful charts telling the story of the priorities in the president's budget.
Analysis - /analysis/2014/presidents-2015-budget-in-pictures/annual-budget-deficit-or-surplus-1930-2015/
March 19, 2014 - ...deficit (or surplus) as a share of the overall U.S. economy since 1930. In President Obama’s 2015 budget, the deficit amounts to 3.1 percent of the economy. As you can see, that’s roughly ...
Analysis - /analysis/2014/presidents-2015-budget-in-pictures/federal-spending-and-revenue-share-us-economy-1930-2015/
March 19, 2014 - Federal spending and tax revenue as a share of the overall U.S. economy all the way back to 1930. In 2015, President Obama proposes federal spending levels totaling 21 percent of the U.S. economy and ...
Analysis - /analysis/2014/presidents-2015-budget-in-pictures/projected-mandatory-and-discretionary-spending-and-interest-federal-debt-fy2015/
March 19, 2014 - How discretionary spending fits into the overall federal budget. As you can see, discretionary spending is less than a third of all federal spending. Sixty-four percent of spending, or $2.6 trillion, ...
