National Priorities Project offers four detailed analyses of President Obama’s $3.7 trillion budget for Fiscal Year 2012 focused on: expenditures, revenue and deficits, the impact of federal spending on the states and a detailed FY2012 budget overview with a selection of actual and projected revenue and spending charts.
Findings include:
* Deficits are more about revenues than spending
* The recession is a major contributor to the near-term growth of mandatory spending
* More jobs, more growth projected
* Domestic programs capped and cut
* Defense spending experiences slowed growth
* The economy demands the continued evolution of healthcare policy
* Changes to federal aid-to-states (data for 33 programs available and downloadable)
via President Obama’s 2012 Budget: In-Depth Analysis.