Chris Hellman and Mattea Kramer are research analysts at the National Priorities Project. They wrote the soon-to-be-published book A People’s Guide to the Federal Budget, and host weekly two-minute Budget Brief videos on YouTube.
Washington’s Cliff Notes: How to Get Yourself to the Edge of the Fiscal Abyss and Not Jump
Crossposted from TomDispatchThey don’t call it the "cliff” for nothing. It’s the fiscal spot where a nation’s representatives can gather and cry doom. It’s the place -- if Washington is to be believed -- where, with a single leap into the Abyss of Sequestration, those representatives can end it all ...
War Pay: The Nearly $1 Trillion National Security Budget
Crossposted from TomDispatchRecent months have seen a flurry of headlines about cuts (often called “threats”) to the U.S. defense budget. Last week, lawmakers in the House of Representatives even passed a bill that was meant to spare national security spending from future cuts by reducing school-lunch funding and other social ...
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November 12th, 2012
Washington’s Cliff Notes: How to Get Yourself to the Edge of the Fiscal Abyss and Not Jump
Crossposted from TomDispatchThey don’t call it the "cliff” for nothing. It’s the fiscal spot where a nation’s representatives can gather and cry doom. It’s the ...
May 23rd, 2012
War Pay: The Nearly $1 Trillion National Security Budget
Crossposted from TomDispatchRecent months have seen a flurry of headlines about cuts (often called “threats”) to the U.S. defense budget. Last week, lawmakers in the ...
November 12th, 2012
Washington’s Cliff Notes: How to Get Yourself to the Edge of the Fiscal Abyss and Not Jump
Crossposted from TomDispatchThey don’t call it the "cliff” for nothing. It’s the fiscal spot where a nation’s representatives can gather and cry doom. It’s the ...
May 23rd, 2012
War Pay: The Nearly $1 Trillion National Security Budget
Crossposted from TomDispatchRecent months have seen a flurry of headlines about cuts (often called “threats”) to the U.S. defense budget. Last week, lawmakers in the ...
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