Analysis - /analysis/2013/sequestration-pentagon-and-states/
Feb. 21, 2013 - Sequestration, the Pentagon, and the States offers selected state-level briefs focused on the local impact of looming automatic across-the-board federal spending cuts known as sequestration and histor...
Blog - /blog/2013/02/13/sotu-demands-better-budget/
Feb. 13, 2013 - ...debt-ceiling suspension with indiscriminate budget cuts threatening critical investments ranging from education to food safety. The State of the Union address failed to acknowledge how far we are from...
Blog - /blog/2013/02/06/presidents-state-union-address/
Feb. 6, 2013 - Article II of the U.S. Constitution states that the president "shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the State of the Union."While the date is not specified by the Constit...
Video - /videos/2013/2/4/state-of-the-union-preview/
Feb. 4, 2013 - ...Debt & Deficit, Education, Military & Security, Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net, Taxes & Revenue
Blog - /blog/2013/02/04/state-union-government-crisis/
Feb. 4, 2013 - The State of the Union is usually a speech about a vision – not only for the twelve months ahead, but for years to come. This year is different.
Analysis - /analysis/2013/fiscal-cliff-deal/
Jan. 2, 2013 - At the eleventh hour, Congress and President Obama reached a deal to address the fiscal cliff. The deal focused on tax revenue and included a number of changes to the tax code, including a permanent e...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/12/17/fiscal-cliff-cuts-job-training-for-young-people/
Dec. 17, 2012 - Almost 5 million people under age 30 are looking for work. Millions have gone back to school only to face skyrocketing college tuition and few opportunities upon graduation. Not surprisingly, anationa...
Analysis - /analysis/2012/education-job-training-and-fiscal-showdown/fight-future-notes-and-sources/
Nov. 15, 2012 - ...Education," (OECD Publishing, 2012lishing, 2012), Table A3.2, http://www.oecd.org/edu/educationataglanceindicatorsrawdata.htm. 11 Carnevale, Smith, and Jeff Strohl, Help Wanted: Projec...
Analysis - /analysis/2012/education-job-training-and-fiscal-showdown/conclusion-its-about-priorities/
Nov. 15, 2012 - ...debt service. However, as this report shows, they ignore the fact that cuts to training and education can hamper a generation’s economic opportunity for years to come. While long-term deficits u...
Analysis - /analysis/2012/education-job-training-and-fiscal-showdown/cutting-education-pulling-plug-progress/
Nov. 15, 2012 - ...Education: Pulling the Plug on Progress mattea As the global economy demands increasing levels of skill, education has fallen as a share of total public spending in the United States (Figure A). In co...
Blog - /blog/2012/10/04/npps-top-5-debate-tweets/
Oct. 4, 2012 - NPP's research team live-tweeted and fact-checked the first debate of the 2012 Presidential Election. If you missed, here are our top 5 tweets.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/10/01/what-the-presidential-debates-wont-tell-you/
Oct. 1, 2012 - ...education, to which you already more or less know the responses each candidate will offer. What you won't get from either Mitt Romney or Barack Obama is a little genuine tough talk about the actual st...
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/
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, ...
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/2012/08/06/world-according-us-students/
Aug. 6, 2012 - ...Education is a right." I had the chance to talk with a small group of students about the federal budget. It was a 90 degree afternoon and these young people had been up until 4 o'clock in the morning ...
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...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/05/17/what-priorities-are-being-set-for-our-nation-are-t/
May 17, 2012 - ...debt limit and evokes the “spending
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/04/17/government-spending-reveals-national-priorities/
April 17, 2012 - Washington D.C. (April 17, 2012) – As Americans file our tax returns, Congressman Kucinich (D-OH) reminded us of the heavy burden taxpayers bear as a result of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Blog - /blog/2012/04/11/tax-day-2012-those-pennies-add/
April 11, 2012 - It's tax week here at National Priorities Project. You might have seen our Tax Day numbers, or watched our Tax Day video on YouTube, or gotten your personalized tax receipt. If you did, you saw that 2...
