Budget and Appropriations - More Policy Analyses and Research
2008
CBPP: President's Budget Would Cut Deeply Into Important Public Services and Adversely Affect States (2/20/08) CLASP: As Economy Weakens, Bush Budget Request Leaves Low-Income Individuals, Laid-Off Workers, and Disconnected Youth Behind (2/12/08) Voices for America's Children: Missed Opportunities: An Analysis of the President's FY 2009 Budget and Its Impact on Children (2/11/08) Families USA: 9 Million Children and Counting: the Administration's Attack on Health Coverage for America's Children (February 2008) Center for Children and Families: SCHIP Provision in the Administration's FY 2009 Budget (2/7/08) CBPP: President's Budget May Provide States With Inadequate Funding to Maintain Current SCHIP Programs (2/7/08) NWLC: Budget Woes: President's FY 09 Budget Seeks to Lock In Gains for the Rich, Cut Services for Women and Families (2/6/08) Women's Policy, Inc: FY2009 Budget Summary (2/5/08) CLASP: President’s Budget Disregards Sound Investments for Young Children CBPP: The Dubious Priorities of the President's FY 2009 Budget (2/4/08)
2007
CBPP: Labor-HHS-Education Bill - What's at Stake: The President's Funding Levels Would Weaken Education, Medical Research, and Other Critical Needs (11/8/07) Fight Crime: Invest in Kids: FY08 Funding for Juvenile Justice Programs (7/17/07) NLIHC: FY08 Budget Chart for Selected Housing Programs (7/13/07) CBPP: The Congressional Budget Plan: a Brief Analysis of the Conference Agreement (5/16/07) CBPP: Discretionary Funding Under the New Congressional Budget Plan - a Big Increase or a Modest Offset to Recent Cuts? (5/16/07) CHN & ECAP: First Things First for America: The President's Budget Makes the Wrong Choices (February 2007) National & state reports available CBPP: President's Budget Calls for Deep Cuts in a Wide Range of Domestic Programs: Cuts Start in 2008 and Grow Deeper Over Time (02/08/07) National Collaboration for Youth: Selected Youth Programs in Proposed FY08 Budget (02/14/07) Workforce Alliance: Administration Recognizes Role of Education and Training in Addressing Economic Inequality in U.S., Yet Proposes Cuts in Workforce Training (February 2007) NWLC: Increasing Inequality, Increasing Insecurity for Women and their Families: an Analysis of the President's FY 2008 Budget (02/13/07) NLIHC: Overview of the President's FY 08 Request for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (02/09/07) NHSA Survey: Over Half of Head Start Programs Forced to Reduce Services to Children in Face of 11 Percent in Federal Cuts that Could Grow to 13 Percent in Fiscal Year 2008 (02/07/07) NHSA: Head Start Funding and Enrollment Cuts in Fiscal Year 2008 (02/07/07) Also see state table. FRAC: Nutrition Program Changes in the President's Budget (02/07/07) CBPP: Despite the Rhetoric, Budget Would Make Nation's Fiscal Problems Worse and Further Widen Inequality (revised 02/06/07) Voices: Balancing the Budget at the Expense of America's Working Families: the Impact of the President's FY 2008 Budget Proposal on Children (revised 02/06/07) CBPP: Federal Grants to States and Localities Cut Deeply in Fiscal Year 2008 Federal Budget (02/06/07) CBPP: President's Budget Would Cut Food for 440,000 Low-Income Seniors (02/06/07) CWLA: Funding for Selected Children's Programs Chart (02/05/07) CWLA: The President's FY 2008 Budget and Children (02/05/07) NPP: The President's Budget: Impact on the States (02/05/07) OMB Watch: President's Budget Full of Cheap Rhetoric; Wrong Priorities (02/05/07) CBPP: The Skewed Benefits of the Tax Cuts, 2008-2017: With the Tax Cuts Extended, Top 1 Percent of Households Will Receive More Than $1 Trillion in Tax Benefits Over the Next Decade (02/05/07) CLASP: Families Forgotten - Administration's Priorities Put Child Care Low on the List (02/05/07) HAC: Summary of the FY08 budget for USDA and HUD programs (02/05/07)
2006
NPP: Database of Federal Budget Trade-Offs by State and Congressional District (8/29/06) NLIHC: FY 07 Budget Chart for Selected HUD Programs (7/21/06) NPP: Where Do Your Tax Dollars Go? (State and Local Reports) (4/6/06) CBPP: The House Budget Committee's New Budget Plan (3/29/06) CBPP: How High Did The Senate Budget Resolution Set Domestic Discretionary Spending for 2007? (3/27/06) CBPP: Proposed Line Item Veto Would Invite Abuse by the President (3/23/06) CBPP: The Senate Budget Committee's Plan (3/13/06) CBPP: Program Cuts In President's Budget Grow Deeper Over Time and Will Hit States Hard (2/23/06) - with state-by-state numbers The Workforce Alliance: Bush Administration Releases FY 2007 Budget (2/17/06) EPI: Bush's Tax and Budget Policies Fail to Promote Economic Growth (2/17/07) Nat'l Policy & Advocacy Council on Homelessness: Beyond Line Items - The President's 2007 Budget (2/10/06) United Way: Bush Administration's 2007 Budget (2/10/06) NWLC: Women and Children Last - Again: Analysis of the President's 2007 Budget (2/10/06) National Priorities Project: The President's Budget: Impact on the States (2/8/06) AFSC: Quaker Group Warns President Bush's New Budget Undermines Basic Values (2/8/06) CBPP: Federal Grants to States and Localities Cut Deeply In Fiscal 2007 Federal Budget (2/7/06) CBPP: The President's Budget - A Preliminary Analysis (2/7/06) OMB Watch: Initial Analysis of the President's Budget (2/6/06) CBPP: The President's Budget Would Cut Food for Over 420,000 Seniors (2/6/06) Citizens for Tax Justice: CBO Projects $8.5 Trillion in Borrowing Over Next Decade Under Bush Tax Policies (1/26/06) CHN: State Fact Sheets - How Budget Cuts Will Affect Your State (1/13/06)
November - December 2005
CBPP: Two Tax Cuts Benefitting Millionaires Take Effect January 2006 (12/28/05) CAP: Congress Cuts Support for Nation's Neediest (12/22/05) CTJ: New CBO Report Shows Bleak Fiscal Forcast (12/22/05) CBPP: Budget Conference Agreement Contains Substainal Cuts Aimed at Low-Income Families (12/18/05) OMB Watch: B udget Cuts: The Final Showdown (12/12/05) CBPP: Key Questions for Judging The Outcome of House and Senate Budget Reconciliation Negotiations (12/8/05) CBPP: House Budget Reconciliation Bill Would Harm People With Disabilities (12/8/05) CBPP: House Budget Bill Contains Highly Flawed TANF Provisions (11/30/05) Center for American Progress: Misplaced Priorities - Cutting Services to Finance Tax Breaks (11/29/05) Center for American Progress: House Medicaid Budget Proposal Harms Millions (11/29/05) CBPP: House Budget Reconcliation Remains Harsh for Vulnerable Americans: Recent Changes Made Are Very Minor (11/17/05) CHN: Labor-HHS-Education Bill Slashes Services for Low-Income People (11/17/05) CLASP: House Cuts to Foster Care Would Jeopardize Children Living with Grandparents (11/9/05) CBPP: CBO Estimates House Budget Bill Would Hit Poor Hard (11/8/05) CBPP: House Budget Bill Undermines Goals of Promoting Work and Responsibility (11/8/05)
October 2005
CBPP: What Are The Effects of Cutting Appropriations by Another Two Percent? (10/31/05) CLASP: Families Will Lose Child Care Under House Ways and Means Committee Welfare Reauthorization Bill (10/31/05) CBPP: Unshared Sacrifice - Who's Hurt, Who's Helped, Who's Spared Under House "Budget Reconciliation" Plan (10/28/05) Evangelical Lutheran Church in America: 100% of Bishops Oppose Reconciliation (10/27/05) CBPP: House Ways and Means Committee Proposal Targets Low-Income Programs (10/25/05) Child Welfare League of America: House Budget Proposal Limits Support for Abused and Neglected Children (10/25/05) CBPP: Large "Budget Reconciliation" Cuts In House Put Programs for Low-Income People At Risk (10/21/05) CBPP: State-By-State Analysis of "Budget Reconciliation" Cuts Proposed in House of Representatives (10/21/05) TomPaine.com: Operation On-Your-Own (10/18/05) Presbyterian Church USA: Religious Leaders Say "No" to Further Budget Cuts in Domestic Programs (10/14/05) Catholic Charities: Voicing Opposition To Service Cuts Considered By Congress (10/14/05) CBPP: Calls to Offset Hurricane Spending Miss the Point (10/6/05)
August - September 2005
CFAP: Budgeting for Katrina and Beyond (9/23/05) CHN: Number of Poor and Uninsured Rise Again in 2004 (8/30/05) OMB Watch: Congressional Budget Office Projections: No Change In Bleak Budget Outlook (8/22/05) CBPP: Entitlement Caps Would Require Deep Cuts In Entitlement Programs (8/10/05) CBPP: Appropriations Cap Would Require Deep Cuts In Domestic Discretionary Programs (8/10/05)
May - July 2005
NLIHC: House and Senate Committee Funding for Housing Programs for Fiscal Year 2006 (7/28/05) CBPP: OMB's Mid-Session Review: Are Future Deficits Really Under Control? (7/13/05) The Workforce Alliance: House-Passed Funding for Fiscal Year 2006 for Key Job Training Programs (7/1/05) Five Groups Call for Budget Discipline and Fair Pay-As-You-Go Rules (6/23/05) CBPP: Repealing the AMT Without Offsetting the Cost Would Add $1 Trillion to the Debt Over the Next Decade (6/9/05) National Student Campaign Against Hunger: 50-State Analysis: Effect of Proposed Food Stamp Cuts (6/7/05)
April 2005
Opposition to the Budget Deal is Widespread - Independent Organizations Speak Out (4/29/05) CBPP: Statement by CBPP on the Budget Conference Agreement (4/28/05) CBPP: Estate Tax "Compromise" May Differ Little from Permanent Repeal (4/20/05) The Bell Policy Center: Congress Considering Cuts to EITC Earned by Soldiers (4/12/05) CBPP: House to Vote on Repeal of Estate Tax; Will Cost $1 Trillion Over a Decade (4/12/05) CBPP: The Impact on State Income Taxes on Low-Income Families (4/12/05) Center for American Progress: Reconnecting Tax and Budget Policies (4/1/05) CBPP: House Budget Resolution Cuts More Deeply Than Senate Budget Plan (4/7/05) (includes state-by-state data on cuts to low-income program)
March 2005
CBPP: Overview of Budget Proposals (3/28/05) OMB Watch: Administration Abusing Its Main Budget Management Tool (3/25/05) RESULTS: House and Senate Pass Congressional Budget Resolutions (3/17/05) This simple grid compares the House and Senate Budget Resolutions CBPP: Large Cuts to Low-Income Programs; More Tax Cuts for Wealthy (3/11/05) National Council of La Raza: Analysis of the President's Budget (3/11/05) CBPP: Assessing the Senate Budget Proposal (3/10/05) CBPP: Assessing the House Budget Proposal (3/9/05) Every Child Matters: Learn How the President's FY 2006 Budget Affects Children in Your State (3/8/05) OMBWatch: Bush Budget to Increase Deficits $1.6 Trillion Over 10 Years (3/7/05) CBPP: Congress Again Considering Using "Reconciliation" Process to Cut Taxes and Increase Deficits (3/3/05) CBPP: Entitlement Caps: Ill-Advised Inequitable Approach to Fiscal Policy (3/2/05)
February 2005
CBPP: Administration's Five-Year Budget Cap Proposal Would Substantially Cut Vital Programs (2/28/05) CBPP: Where Would the Cuts Be Made Under the President's Budget (includes state data) (2/22/05) Workforce Alliance: Analysis of Workforce Spending in the President's FY 2006 Budget (2/21/05) National Head Start Association: Head Start Enrollment Cuts by State in FY 2006 (2/21/05) NCLR: Analysis of the President's FY 2006 Budget (2/15/05) CBPP: State Fiscal Crisis Lingers - Cuts Still Loom (2/15/05) G'town Health Policy Institute: How the President's Proposals for Medicaid and SCHIP Affect Children (2/15/05) OMB Watch: The President's FY 06 Budget: An Overview (2/14/05) Center for American Progress: Wrong Choices: An Analysis of the President's Budget (2/9/05) CBPP: Unpublished Administration Documents Show Domestic Cuts Would Significantly Reduce Funding for Most Public Services (2/9/05) CBPP: What The President's Budget Shows About Administration Priorities (2/9/05) CLASP: President's Budget Projects 300,000 Children to Lose Child Care (2/7/05) Families USA: President's Medicaid Budget Shifts Huge Financial Burdens to the States (2/7/05) CBPP: Assessing President Bush's New Budget Proposal (2/7/05) CBPP: President Likely to Propose New Budget Rule That Would Cut Entitlements (2/2/05)
January 2005
Center for Community Change: Budget Advocacy Toolkit (1/27/05) CBPP: CBO Data Show Tax Cuts - Not Spending - Fuel the Deficit (1/25/05) CBPP: The Simple Story: Tax Cuts Lose Revenues (1/25/05) The Workforce Alliance: Funding for Selected Workforce Training Programs (1/7/05)
2004
CBPP: Should Budget Rules Be Changed So Large-Scale Borrowing to Finance Private Accounts is Left Out of the Budget? (12/13/04) NCSL: State Budget Update: November 2004 (12/9/04) CBPP: State Fiscal Crisis Lingers (12/8/04) CWLA: Funding for Selected Children's Programs (12/2/04) CBPP: Improvements to Appropriations Needed to Protect Housing Vouchers in 2005 (11/8/04) CBPP: Treasury Report Shows 4th Year of Deficit Growth, Despite Economic Recovery (10/14/04) EPI: Unrealistic Expectations for Federal Budget (10/13/04) CBPP: Deficits and the Mid Session Review (7/30/04) CBO: The Estate Tax and Charitable Giving (July 2004) CTJ: Do Fat Cats Pay Lower Tax Rates? (7/22/04) Urban League: Budget Cuts Disproportionately Hurt African-American Families (6/29/04) Urban League: Budget Cuts Disproportionately Hurt Hispanic Families (6/29/04) CBPP: House Pay-As-You-Go Plan Makes Mockery of Fiscal Discipline (6/23/04) CBPP: Misplaced Prioirities on Corporate Tax Bill (6/19/04) CTJ: Corporate Pork Trumps Rational Jobs Policy (6/16/04) OMBWatch: No Budget, But Appropriations Moving Forward (6/14/04) CBPP: 75 Year Pay-Go Proposal Affects Medicare, SSI, Social Security (6/11/04) CBPP: Should the Senate Raise the Income Limit for Child Tax Credit? (6/11/04) CHN: Letter to House of Representatives on Budget Process Legislation (6/3/04) CBPP: The Ultimate Burden of Tax Cuts (6/2/04) CBPP: Key Issues and Threats in the House Budget Process Debate (5/17/04) CBPP: Passing Down the Deficit: Federal Policies Contribute to State Fiscal Crisis (5/13/04) CBPP: Tax Returns: An Assessment of Bush's Record on Cutting Taxes (4/15/04) CHN: Slamming the Door on Opportunity - The President's FY 2005 Budget (3/5/04) CBPP: Administration's Budget Would Cut Many Areas Of Domestic Discretionary Spending After 2005 (2/27/04) CBPP/CLASP: Budget Cuts Child Care for More Than 300,000 Children (2/25/04) US Conference of Catholic Bishops: Budgeting for Poverty (2/23/04) CBPP: State Estate Taxes Affect Very Few Estates (2/18/04) CBPP: Analysis of the President's Budget (2/2/04) CBPP:Administration's FY 2005 Budget: An Unbalanced and Ineffective Approach to Fiscal Discipline (2/4/04) Brookings: The President's FY 2005 Budget: First Impressions (2/4/04) CBPP: President's Budget Contains Larger Cuts Than Has Been Reported (2/5/04) Urban Institute: State Responses to 2004 Budget Crises: A Look at Ten States (2/1/04) The Real State of the Union: How the Administration and Congress Failed Low Income Workers in 2003 (1/16/04) 2003 CBPP: The New, Definitive CBO Data on Income and Tax Trends (9/23/03) EPI: Analysis of Department of Labor Overtime Rule Claims (9/3/03) Urban Institute: Changes in Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Coverage (9/1/03) EPI: Eliminating the Right to Overtime Pay (6/26/03) CBPP: Joblessness Outlasting Federal Help for 2/3 of the Program Receipents (6/5/03) ACORN: Raising Low Pay in a High Income Economy (May 2003) PRC: Training a Workforce: What Will Keep America Working Into the 21st Century (5/9/03)
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