National Priorities Project analyzes and clarifies federal data so that people can understand and influence how their tax dollars are spent. BREAKING NEWS
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September 24 2009
National Priorities Project is proud to release the Security Spending Primer: Getting Smart About The Pentagon Budget. (PDF Document)
This Primer is a “one-stop-shopping” resource and has two main goals:
- to provide comprehensive, easy-to-understand information on the complexity of the federal budget process; and
- to help build the capacity of people across the United States who want their voices and their priorities to be heard in the debate over federal spending in general and military spending in particular.
THE LATEST
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April 14 2009
As Congress considers additional war funding for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2009, National Priorities Project offers a state-level table and breakdowns of the President's proposed total war spending by congressional district, county and city.
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April 07 2009
With this publication, taxpayers can take stock of how the federal government spent each 2008 income tax dollar: 37.3 cents went towards military-related spending (military and military-related debt), while environment, energy and science-related spending split 2.8 cents. Income tax dollar spending is available for all states as well as over 200 cities and towns.
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April 07 2009
Foreign Policy In Focus expert Miriam Pemberton and Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation analyst Travis Sharp respond to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’s military budget.
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February 26 2009
National Priorities Project and the Institute for Policy Studies release an examination of the preliminary military and non-military security spending requests found in President Obama's Fiscal Year 2010 budget overview, released today, February 26, 2009.
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February 18 2009
In January, NPP released part 1 of its analysis of new Active-duty Army recruits, looking at overall educational attainment and quality. In this second installment, NPP analyzes the 2008 recruitment data by race, educational attainment, quality, income, and other demographic characteristics. This is the fifth year in row that the National Priorities Project has obtained data from the US Army Recruiting Command on all non-prior service active-duty and reserve accessions, through the Freedom of Information Act. Each year NPP compiles these data into geographical areas by zip code, county, and state, and offers them on its searchable online NPP Database.
Bringing the Federal Budget Home
National Priorities Project (NPP) is a 501(c)(3) research organization that analyzes and clarifies federal data so that people can understand and influence how their tax dollars are spent. Located in Northampton, MA, since 1983, NPP focuses on the impact of federal spending and other policies at the national, state, congressional district and local levels. Find out more at About Us.
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