Signals From President Obama's First Budget

National Priorities Project and the Institute for Policy Studies release an examination of the preliminary military and non-military security spending requests found in President Obama's Fiscal Year 2010 budget overview, released today, February 26, 2009.
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Army Recruitment in FY 2008: A Look at Age, Race, Income, and Education of New Soldiers

In January, NPP released part 1 of its analysis of new Active-duty Army recruits, looking at overall educational attainment and quality. In this second installment, NPP analyzes the 2008 recruitment data by race, educational attainment, quality, income, and other demographic characteristics. This is the fifth year in row that the National Priorities Project has obtained data from the US Army Recruiting Command on all non-prior service active-duty and reserve accessions, through the Freedom of Information Act.  Each year NPP compiles these data into geographical areas by zip code, county, and state, and offers them on its searchable online NPP Database. 

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Military Recruitment 2008: Significant Gap in Army's Quality and Quantity Goals

The U.S. Army has called for an additional 65,000 recruits over the coming years.   Yet in spite of aggressive recruitment efforts, the Army again missed its quality benchmarks in Fiscal Year 2008.  Today NPP updates its annual report on Army recruitment, with Part I of its analysis of Fiscal Year 2008 Army recruiting, and provides access to data by state, county and ZIP Code.

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Updated: Wed, 02/18/2009 - 20:08

The Military Cost of Securing Energy

According to a new report from National Priorities Project (NPP), the United States is spending between $97 and $215 billion dollars annually on military action to defend access to oil and natural gas reserves around the globe. The Military Cost of Securing Energy provides a critical analysis of the military cost of defending U.S. energy concerns overseas. The report estimates that the military spends up to 30 percent of its annual budget to secure access to energy resources internationally.

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Updated: Wed, 10/14/2009 - 18:13

U.S. Oil Import

The United States imports most of its oil from which country?

testing quiz module

testing the quiz module for the priorities quiz

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Updated: Wed, 08/06/2008 - 19:54

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Meeting 6 Months View

This is a meeting to go over the 6 months view for technical needs of the office.
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Week of 6/23

The President's War Request: Local Costs Updated

As Congress considers additional war funding, NPP offers a state-level table and breakdowns of the President's proposed Iraq war spending by congressional district, county and city.

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Where Do Your Tax Dollars Go?

Taxpayers can take stock of how the federal government spent their 2007 income tax dollars: over 40 percent went towards military spending, while education received just over 4 percent. This publication shows how the median income family's 2007 income tax dollars were spent for every state and 200 cities, towns and counties.

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Updated: Mon, 04/07/2008 - 16:27