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Why the Senate Won’t Pass a Budget

This week the U.S. Senate will consider a series of amendments to the budget resolution. A budget resolution sets out spending and revenue guidelines for Congress’s annual appropriations process.Except that the Senate won’t pass a budget resolution this year. To Hill watchers, this isn’t too surprising – the media is ...

Chris Hellman | May 16, 2012 at 4:20PM


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Knowledge Is Power (And You Don’t Have to Take My Word for It)

This week we announced the release of our new book A People’s Guide to the Federal Budget, and in yesterday’s blog post we admitted to being idealists: A book can change the world, we said. But it’s not just because we’re idealists that we think so. Consider the evidence.

Mattea Kramer | May 15, 2012 at 6:00AM


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Our new book! A People's Guide to the Federal Budget

We're thrilled to announce the release of our new book A People's Guide to the Federal Budget. It's a guide for the 2012 elections. It's a book to engage people of all ages and backgrounds in our democracy. It's the ...

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