During Pie Week, we’ve explored three types of federal spending pies: total, mandatory, and discretionary. Judging from your comments on our Facebook page, you have strong opinions about the numbers on these charts. To wrap up the week, we think it’s important to see the spending charts next to one ...

Our final pie of Pie Week! We showed you total federal spending, mandatory spending, and discretionary spending. Today's flavor of pie? Where the money comes from to fund the federal budget.

Pie Week continues today with the part of the federal budget that often receives the most scrutiny: discretionary spending.

For the second day of Pie Week, we present the mandatory spending pie. Mandatory spending is part of total federal spending, which we explored in yesterday's total federal spending pie.

This week we're talking about pie. Federal budget pies, that is. The first pie we're looking at is total federal spending. Join us every day this week for a different slice of pie.

In some charts, you see that military is more than half the budget. But in others, you see that it's much less than that. Let's settle this once and for all.

Labor Force Participation, Employment, and Unemployment data are now current through 2011.

Which states get the most federal money to fund research on alternative fuels?

There are two new indicators available in the Federal Priorities Database, both related to state-level energy consumption: Energy Consumption by Source: fossil fuel, nuclear, and renewable-based energy consumption, as well as total energy consumption Energy Consumption Per Person: per-capita energy consumption

In honor of Earth Day this past Sunday, NPP’s focus this week is on the environment. The Federal Priorities Database—our collection of spending and indicators compiled into one easy-to-use, free search tool--has several data collections related to energy and the environment.  The data below have the latest available information about ...