Budgeting for National Priorities Project

Operated by the Brookings Institution, the Budgeting for National Priorities Project is a research program dedicated to the discussion and public promotion of fiscal responsibility in federal budget policy. By finding common ground and looking beneath the larger ideological conflict surrounding issues of government spending and thrift, the project hopes to evolve and develop policy that more ably meets the needs of the American public. It has hosted the Fiscal Seminar since 2005, in which leading scholars from across academia and the public policy world - from both liberal and conservative backgrounds - meet to discuss the complex fiscal questions facing contemporary America. Through partnerships with Public Agenda, the Concord Coalition, and the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, the project promotes public education on complex fiscal questions by sponsoring lectures and town-hall meetings across the USA on the hot-button spending issues of the day. It also publishes a book series.