Chris Hellman - Common Dreams
NORTHHAMPTION, Mass. - May 8 - On May 7, 2009, the Obama Administration released its FY2010 budget, which begins to shift our nation's energy-related values as reflected in spending priorities for the coming year. The following is a brief synopsis of representative Department of Energy numbers. In response, National Priorities ...
National Priorities Project - Common Dreams
NORTHHAMPTION, Mass. - May 18 - National Priorities Project (NPP) has released a comprehensive federal budget tool which spans fiscal years 2008 to 2010, offering a comparison of the Bush and Obama budgets, while highlighting economic stimulus spending in 2009. This tool offers both national and state-level numbers, with a ...
- Straight Outta Suburbia
LA Metro recently announced that they'll be cutting back their bus service. They're running a $251 million budget deficit due to the weak economy. This is despite the fact that in 2008 we LA County voters overwhelmingly chose to increase our taxes to fund a pretty progressive package of transportation ...
Samantha Dana - National Priorities Project
This week there was a lot of media coverage of the tentative agreement reached between the Obama Administration and congressional Republicans to extend the Bush-era tax cuts. The agreement came after the GOP leadership announced its intention to block any legislation during the current "lame duck" session until the tax ...
Associated Press - The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats have delayed a showdown vote on legislation carving out a path to legal status for foreign-born youngsters brought to this country illegally. Facing GOP objections, Democrats are putting aside the so-called Dream Act. They're short of the 60 votes needed to advance the measure. Democratic officials ...
Jim Harper - The Washington Watch Blog
The good folks at the National Priorities Project have a rundown on what's happening with budgeting and spending this week:
James Zogby - Progressive Democrats of America
From the day the first batch of Wikileaks appeared in the international press, the Israelis were crowing "this is good for us". Seizing on documents demonstrating that some Arab leaders bear ill-will toward Iran, the Israeli spin machine went into action. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasted that "Our region ...
- Brookings Institute
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Chris Hellman - National Priorities Project
Earlier today, the 18 members of the President's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform voted to approve the final version of the proposal issued by the Commission's Co-Chairs, Sen. Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles. The vote was 11-7, short of the 14 votes which, according to the panel's rules, ...
