Article - /pressroom/articles/2015/10/18/putting-out-syrian-fire/
Oct. 18, 2015 - Can Diplomacy Do What War Couldn't?
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.
Analysis - /analysis/2014/budget-proposals-2015/
April 1, 2014 - National Priorities Project examines how new budget proposals stack up against what Americans want.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2014/03/06/pentagon-phony-budget-war/
March 6, 2014 - ...Mattea Kramer Washington is pushing the panic button, claiming austerity is hollowing out our armed forces and our national security is at risk. That was the message Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel d...
Analysis - /analysis/2014/sequestration-impact-on-military-spending-2013-2014/
March 4, 2014 - Across-the-board budget cuts have had a much smaller impact on military spending than news reports suggest.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2014/03/03/obama-budget-political-document/
March 3, 2014 - ...Mattea Kramer, research director at the National Priorities Project, a bipartisan, nonprofit research organization that focuses on the federal budget. “We’re actually going to have more s...
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?
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/12/30/most-underreported-stories-2013/
Dec. 30, 2013 - What stories did not get the coverage they deserved in 2013? We asked editors, journalists and friends of BillMoyers.com to weigh in with their choices, including stories they reported on. Here’...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/12/11/Look_at_the_stats/
Dec. 11, 2013 - Last week, President Obama gave one of the most important speeches of his presidency when he spoke about the rapidly growing deficit of opportunity in this country. It was the president’s most f...
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 ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/10/15/debt-ceiling-2013-mcconnell-hits-brakes/
Oct. 15, 2013 - Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has reportedly temporarily hit the brakes on a bipartisan plan he’s working on with Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to avert the first-ever U.S...
Video - /videos/2013/9/30/4-crazy-things-congress-did-instead-of-passing-a-budget/
Sept. 30, 2013 - ...Mattea Kramer, National Priorities Project's Research Director, reveals four ridiculous things Congress did instead of passing a budget. Budget Process
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/09/06/npp-estimates-cost-of-military-action-in-syria/
Sept. 6, 2013 - NORTHAMPTON — While lawmakers consider whether to use military force in retaliation against Syria’s alleged use of nerve gas on its citizens, the National Priorities Project has calculated...
Video - /videos/2013/8/26/secret-tax-reform/
Aug. 26, 2013 - ...Mattea Kramer discusses Congress's effort to change the U.S. tax code-- in secret. Debt & Deficit, Taxes & Revenue
Video - /videos/2013/6/20/four-sizzling-summer-budget-battles/
June 20, 2013 - ...Mattea Kramer takes you through them. Health Care, Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net, Taxes & Revenue
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/2013/04/26/the-great-surveillance-boom/
April 26, 2013 - FORTUNE -- Video surveillance is big business. Expect it to get bigger. After law enforcement used closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras to help identify last week's Boston bombing suspects, lawmak...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2013/04/14/writing-a-check-to-irs-should-inspire-pride/
April 14, 2013 - ...Mattea Kramer LEON NEYFAKH wrote an important piece about the taxes we pay and what we get in return (“Taxes, a love story,” Ideas, April 7). Americans typically loathe paying taxes in par...
