Prior Year Federal Budget and Appropriations Analyses

NWLC analyses and resources about past years' federal budget and appropriations proposals can be found below.

Reports & Toolkits

President Obama's FY 2010 Budget: Investments for Women and Families: Child Nutrition
May 13, 2009

The President's budget provides a significant funding increase for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC). Read more...

President Obama's FY 2010 Budget: Investments for Women and Families: Housing Assistance
May 13, 2009

At a time when many families, especially those headed by women, are at increased risk of homelessness, the budget significantly increases funding for rental housing assistance for low-income people, including Housing Choice vouchers, Section 8 project-based rental assistance, and public housing.

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Appropriations Bill for FY 09 Provides Additional Funding for Programs Important to Women and Families: Helping Elderly and Low-Income Tax Filers
March 11, 2009

Helping Elderly and Low-Income Tax Filers

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Appropriations Bill for FY 09 Provides Additional Funding for Programs Important to Women and Families: Housing Assistance
March 11, 2009

Housing Assistance

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Appropriations Bill for FY 09 Provides Additional Funding for Programs Important to Women and Families: Nutrition Assistance
March 11, 2009

Nutrition Assistance

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Increasing Inequality, Increasing Insecurity for Women and Their Families: An Analysis of the President's FY 2008 Budget
February 15, 2007
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Fact Sheets

What the FY 2011 Budget Deal Means for Women and Families
April 18, 2011

To resolve the lengthy battle over appropriations for the remainder of fiscal year 2011, the President signed a continuing resolution (CR) on April 15 that cuts federal funding for domestic and foreign aid programs by approximately $42 billion. Cuts of this magnitude will negatively impact the people employed and served by the programs cut and undermine the fragile progress towards economic recovery that has been made in recent months. 

However, the cuts to domestic programs in the CR are not nearly as deep as the draconian measures proposed in the House spending bill, H.R. 1, nor do they disproportionately harm women, seniors and lower-income families as H.R. 1 would have. 

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House Republican Spending Cuts in H.R. 1 Devastating To Women, Families and the Economy
March 30, 2011

H.R. 1, the House Republicans’ spending plan for the rest of fiscal year 2011, slashes funding for services vital to women and girls at every stage of their lives, from early childhood to K-12, through their working and childbearing years, and into old age, while more costly tax breaks for millionaires and corporate special interests are untouched.  In addition, the bill prohibits the federal government from enforcing important legal protections for women.

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State-by-State Factsheets: GOP Spending Plan Slashes Services for Women
March 17, 2011

H.R. 1, the House Republicans’ spending plan for the rest of fiscal year 2011, slashes funding for services vital to women and girls at every stage of their lives, while more costly tax breaks for millionaires and corporate special interests are untouched. 

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Impact of the McConnell Tax Plan on Working Families and Single Mothers in States
September 22, 2010

This chart documents the impact on working families and single mothers of the cuts proposed by Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in his tax plan.

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Appropriations Bill for FY 09 Provides Additional Funding for Programs Important to Women and Families
March 15, 2009
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