Thursday host Allen Ruff speaks with Lindsay Koshgarian, research director at the National Priorities Project, about the federal budget. The National Priorities Project is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization that strives to make the federal budget accessible to the public.

Ms. Koshgarian’s primary focus at the NPP is how the decades-long policy of outsized military budgets has eroded political will to invest in domestic needs. Previously, she’s worked at the University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute, where she led economic studies on workforce and education, housing markets and affordable housing, and federal and state spending initiatives.