As Congress considers additional war funding for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2009, National Priorities Project offers a state-level table and breakdowns of the President's proposed total war spending by congressional district, county and city.

With this publication, taxpayers can take stock of how the federal government spent each 2008 income tax dollar: 37.3 cents went towards military-related spending (military and military-related debt), while environment, energy and science-related spending split 2.8 cents.  Income tax dollar spending is available for all states as well as over 200 cities and towns.

Foreign Policy In Focus expert Miriam Pemberton and Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation analyst Travis Sharp respond to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’s military budget.

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. 

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.

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.

As the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War approaches on March 19th, the National Priorities Project takes stock of President Bush's spending priorities, examining the cost of the Iraq War, proposed budget cuts in domestic programs and the cost of keeping tax cuts for the wealthy. State-level publications are available.

The administration released its fiscal year 2009 $3 trillion budget request on Monday, February 5. An overview of the budget proposal along with state-level breakdowns on selected programs are available.

In spite of efforts by the Pentagon to aggressively recruit youth into the Army, the Army missed its benchmarks once again in 2007. NPP releases its analysis of 2007 recruiting and provides access to data by state, county and ZIP Code.