Blog - /blog/2014/01/23/data-innovation-day-2014/
Jan. 23, 2014 - NPP is proud to celebrate Data Innovation Day 2014 by highlighting our open data tools.
Blog - /blog/2013/12/23/vision-2014/
Dec. 23, 2013 - Congress managed to squeeze through a budget deal just before its Dec. 13 deadline, narrowly avoiding another crisis. Yet there is still a long way to go. January is sure to be action-packed.
Analysis - /analysis/2013/bipartisan-budget-act-2013/
Dec. 11, 2013 - Senate Budget Committee Chair Patty Murray and her House counterpart Rep. Paul Ryan came to a deal on the federal budget. See exactly what the deal contains.
Analysis - /analysis/2013/americans-blueprint-budget-resolution/
Nov. 21, 2013 - Lawmakers are failing the basic task of managing our nation’s finances. Yet if they listened to the American people, they would pass a smart long-term budget plan by taking these actions on key ...
Analysis - /analysis/2013/multi-issue-prevention-model-benefiting-society-while-reducing-government-spendi/
Oct. 31, 2013 - In a collaboration with the Prevention Project, National Priorities Project explores investment in prevention strategies -- from health care to criminal justice to national defense -- in order to achi...
Video - /videos/2013/10/7/government-shutdown-national-priorities-projects-jo-comerford-on-wort-radio/
Oct. 7, 2013 - ...Debt & Deficit, Education, Health Care, Military & Security, Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net, Taxes & Revenue
Blog - /blog/2013/09/12/washington-spend-trillions-2014-will-spend-trillions-14-who-knows-what/
Sept. 12, 2013 - Congress failed to make funding decisions for fiscal 2014 on its regular time-frame, and now the debate on Syria has jumped to the front of the line. That means Congress is going to make som...
Blog - /blog/2013/09/05/last-week-recess-now-about-budget-and-debt-ceiling/
Sept. 5, 2013 - Congress returns to Washington next week, and they have a lot of work to get done. Use our fact sheets to brush up on the issues.
Blog - /blog/2013/09/03/back-school-debate-over-student-loans/
Sept. 3, 2013 - ...education for future college students.
Blog - /blog/2013/08/12/whats-happening-with-federal-budget-debt-ceiling/
Aug. 12, 2013 - You've heard whispers. Perhaps here and there in the news there's been mention, yet again, of the potential for a government shutdown. So here's the update you need – in handy cheat-sheet f...
Analysis - /analysis/2013/august-recess-legislator-meeting-fact-sheets/federal-spending-fact-sheet/
Aug. 1, 2013 - The key facts on federal spending and the off-the-rails budget process.
Blog - /blog/2013/07/23/deal-student-loans-could-lead-higher-interest-rates/
July 23, 2013 - The Senate could vote as early as today on a bill that would allow student loan interest rates to rise sharply within a few years.
Analysis - /analysis/2013/august-recess-legislator-meeting-fact-sheets/
July 18, 2013 - ...education, the military, health care, and Social Security, as well as tax reform and overall federal spending and the budget process.
Blog - /blog/2013/06/19/faces-budget-student-aid-and-student-debt/
June 19, 2013 - ...debt was not something people worried about. Fifty years later, everything has changed.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/05/21/how-america-became-a-third-world-country/
May 21, 2013 - It’s 2023 -- and this is America 10 years after the first across-the-board federal budget cuts known as sequestration went into effect. They went on for a decade, making no excep...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/04/29/im-sequestration-fly-me/
April 29, 2013 - Just as we’re bemoaning our narcoleptic Congress (see our latest, “Do-Nothing Congress Gives Inertia a Bad Name”), the august body suddenly awakes and springs into action as if ...
Blog - /blog/2013/04/10/president-obamas-2014-budget-top-5-things-know/
April 10, 2013 - Today President Obama released his fiscal 2014 budget proposal, which set a record for arriving two months after the legal deadline of the first Monday in February. Here are the top five things to kno...
Analysis - /analysis/2013/president-obamas-fiscal-year-2014-budget/
April 10, 2013 - Overview and details of President Obama's 2014 budget proposal, including proposed reductions in Social Security benefits.
Analysis - /analysis/2013/budget-proposals-2014/
March 14, 2013 - National Priorities Project examines how new budget proposals stack up against what Americans want.
Blog - /blog/2013/02/26/what-sequestration-and-how-will-it-affect-me/
Feb. 26, 2013 - By now you've heard that federal budget cuts will take effect on Friday. And you've heard the strange-sounding name for these cuts: sequestration. No one thought the cuts would actually take effe...
