by Jasmine Tucker | Apr 2, 2014 | Better Off Budget
On Tuesday, we at the National Priorities Project released our fourth annual, one-of-a-kind Competing Visions analysis, which compares the president’s fiscal year 2015 budget proposal to two significantly different visions – the House Republican budget resolution,...
by Richard Long | Apr 2, 2014 | Better Off Budget, Blog
A day after the release of Paul Ryan’s “Path to Prosperity” budget, members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus gathered to discuss their own “Better Off Budget,” outside a room in the Cannon House Building where the House Budget Committee was marking up the Ryan...
by Dave Johnson | Apr 2, 2014 | Better Off Budget
The new Ryan/Republican budget is out. It cuts $5.1 trillion from spending over 10 years on things that make our lives better, while reducing taxes on the wealthy and giant corporations, and increasing military spending by $483 billion over the same period. (Note that...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 20, 2014 | Better Off Budget
[fve]http://youtu.be/MPoAc7FVk0E[/fve] "Full employment," according to some economists and policymakers, is not as full as it used to be. The upshot is that many people in Washington are beginning to regard as "normal" what should be unacceptable. That's one more...
by Richard Eskow | Mar 18, 2014 | Better Off Budget
[fve]http://youtu.be/2O6RQSUoSwA[/fve] The Congressional Progressive Caucus "Better Off Budget," which was released last week, is a more "mainstream" or even "small 'c' conservative" budget than some commentators might suggest, economist Joshua Smith of the Economic...
by Dave Johnson | Mar 14, 2014 | Better Off Budget
The big battles in D.C. are over the federal government's budget. You would think that the announcement of a comprehensive budget proposal from the largest group of Democrats in the House, that lines up with the American people's wishes and solves the country's budget...