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, ...
Blog - /blog/2014/03/17/whats-president-obamas-2015-budget-and-why-should-we-care/
March 17, 2014 - After getting through Congress, the final version of the budget will likely look very different from this initial blueprint; but the changes legislators make should reflect your priorities, not their ...
Blog - /blog/2014/03/05/how-would-you-spend-trillion/
March 5, 2014 - Here are the five things you absolutely need to know about President Obama's proposal to spend $3.9 trillion in 2015
Article - /pressroom/articles/2014/03/05/Top-Five-Obama-Budget/
March 5, 2014 - ...Deficit The president’s budget proposal would run a deficit of $561 billion in 2015. As a share of the economy, the deficit is expected to be 3.1 percent in 2015. That’s down from a high ...
Analysis - /analysis/2014/president-obamas-fiscal-year-2015-budget/
March 4, 2014 - New budget includes $56 billion in additional spending, relieving sequestration for fiscal 2015.
Blog - /blog/2014/03/04/national-priorities-project-reacts-presidents-fiscal-year-2015-budget/
March 4, 2014 - President Obama today released his $3.9 trillion fiscal 2015 budget proposal, a plan that includes new manufacturing institutes, job training, and the president’s signature initiative of univers...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2014/03/03/obama-budget-political-document/
March 3, 2014 - ...deficit versus the hard cuts to popular programs that would be necessary to get there. “Splits? There are no splits in our party,” Mr. Boehner joked with reporters last week, shaking off ...
Blog - /blog/2014/02/24/presidents-2015-budget-preview/
Feb. 25, 2014 - Next week on March 4, President Obama’s fiscal year 2015 budget will be released. Here’s what will -- and what won’t -- be in his budget request.
Analysis - /analysis/2014/history-us-federal-budget-2011-2013/
Feb. 12, 2014 - Recently the nation has endured one Congress-made, budget-related crisis after another. National Priorities Project documents the twists and turns.
Blog - /blog/2014/02/11/three-dangerous-myths-about-debt-ceiling-again/
Feb. 11, 2014 - Will lawmakers act in time to avoid the dangerous debt ceiling limit?
Blog - /blog/2014/02/04/debt-ceiling-deadline-2014/
Feb. 4, 2014 - A few glimmers of hope came from Washington in recent months. Lawmakers agreed on a bipartisan budget resolution.
Blog - /blog/2014/01/02/npp-2014-now-its-personal/
Jan. 2, 2014 - NPP is getting personal in 2014. Here's a sneak peak at the work ahead in the new year.
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.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/12/11/Look_at_the_stats/
Dec. 11, 2013 - ...deficit of opportunity in this country. It was the president’s most focused and deliberate address on income inequality to date, but for many it wasn’t nearly alarmist enough, for it didn&...
Blog - /blog/2013/12/02/spend-more-education-save-health-care-millennial-perspective/
Dec. 2, 2013 - When discussions around federal spending turn to trade-offs and long-term projections, the stakes are highest for the Millennial generation and those who are still in the K-12 education system.
