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Latest News
HNR: Both House and Senate Close to President’s Levels for Human Needs Appropriations
Handful of Appropriations Bills Pass in the House Before July Recess (7/1/09)
HNR: House Gets Started on Next Year’s Appropriations (6/16/09)
HNR: Congress Passes Budget Outline; President Fills in the Blanks (5/11/09)
Congress Passes Final Budget Resolution - message from CHN (4/29/09)
Op-ed by Deborah Weinstein in the Huffington Post: Obama is on the Right Track When it Comes to Eliminating Government Waste (4/22/09)

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Policy Analyses and Research

CHN: Reserve Funds in Budget Resolution Pave the Way for Future Congressional Action (5/11/09)
CBPP: Policy Points: Congressional Budgets Pass Early Tests on Deficit and Economy, but Questions Remain (4/3/09)
CBPP: Lincoln-Kyl Estate Tax Amendment is Both Unnecessary and Unaffordable (4/2/09)
CBPP: An Analysis of the House and Senate Budget Plans (4/1/09)
CBPP: Proposal to Cap Deductions for High-Income Households Would Reduce Charitable Contributions by Only About 1 Percent - Would Help to Finance Universal Health Coverage (3/5/09)
CBPP: Very Few Small Business Owners Would Face Tax Increases Under President's Budget: Vast Majority Would Benefit from Other Key Proposals (2/28/09)
CHN: The Long-Term Fiscal Crisis: A Health Care Problem, Not an Entitlement Problem (February 2009)
CHN: Rebuilding Opportunity for All Americans Requires a Significant Increase in FY 2010 Appropriations (February 2009)

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Appropriations Funding Resources

CHN: FY 2010 Human Needs Funding - President's Request compared to prior years' funding levels (5/8/09)
CHN: Domestic Spending Must be Adequate to Serve Growing Needs - Tables compare FY09 Omnibus human needs spending to prior years (3/11/09)

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Government Resources
Office of Management and Budget - FY 2010 Budget: A New Era of Responsibility: Renewing America's Promise (2/26/09)

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State Data

House Budget Committee: What’s at Stake:  A State-By-State Analysis of the President’s Fiscal Year 2009 Budget (2/4/08)
National Priorities Project: The President's Budget Fiscal Year 2009: Impact on the States (February 2008)
The Workforce Alliance: Effects of 2009 Budget Request on Total WIA State by State Funding and Recipients (February 2008)
CHN: Leaving Out Millions Whose Spending Would Spur the Economy (revised 1/28/08)
Depth of Poverty by State, 2006 (9/4/07)
State Poverty by Race/Ethnicity, 2006 (9/7/07)
Percent of Household Income Spent on Rent, 2006 (9/12/07)

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