Resources :: Prioritizing Spending
Recovery.gov | Track the Money
Recovery.gov is the U.S. government's official website that provides easy access to data related to Recovery Act spending and allows for the reporting of potential fraud, waste, and abuse.
The Pete G. Peterson Foundation
A solution-based page that looks at the national budget, broken down by government spending issue areas, encourages viewers to rise above partisanship and work together to live within our means and preserve the American tradition of increasing prosperity for future generations.
The Brookings Institution
The Budgeting for National Priorities project promotes greater fiscal responsibility by developing new ideas, educating the public and finding common ground among experts and policy-makers.
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, comprised of some of the nation's leading budget experts, is a bipartisan, non-profit organization committed to educating the public about issues that have significant fiscal policy impact.
The Project on Government Oversight (POGO)
The Project On Government Oversight is a nonpartisan independent watchdog that champions good government reforms. POGO’s investigations into corruption, misconduct, and conflicts of interest achieve a more effective, accountable, open, and ethical federal government.
USA Spending
The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Transparency Act) required a single searchable website, accessible by the public for free that provides comprehensive information about each Federal award. Usaspending.gov provides just that, government spending at your fingertips.
Taxpayers for Common Sense
Taxpayers for Common Sense is an independent and non-partisan voice for taxpayers working to increase transparency and expose and eliminate wasteful and corrupt subsidies, earmarks, and corporate welfare.
The Fiscal Times
The Fiscal Times (TFT) is digital news, opinion and media service devoted to comprehensive quality reporting on vital fiscal, budgetary, health care and economic issues.
Americans for Campaign Reform
Americans for Campaign Reform believe that public funding is the single most critical long-term public policy issue our nation faces and are aimed at creating a powerful, non-partisan, grassroots movement to demand support for a new kind of politics in America.