Budget Matters Blog
Category: Military & Security
The Pentagon’s New Blueprint
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Chris Hellman
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Military & Security
On January 5 Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army General Martin E. Dempsey – joined by President Obama in a rare visit to the Pentagon – rolled out the military’s new strategic plan.Secretary Panetta and General Dempsey’s briefing provided a modest amount of ...
Data Story: Jobs and Department of Defense Procurement
By
Becky Sweger
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Military & Security,
Transparency & Data
This data story explores the relationship between Department of Defense procurement spending and unemployment rates.
Updated Data: 38 Expenditures
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Becky Sweger
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Education,
Health Care,
Military & Security,
Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net,
Transparency & Data
38 datasets have been updated to reflect yesterday's release of the FY 2010 Consolidated Federal Funds Report, which tracks federal government expenditures or obligations.
The Scoop on the American Jobs Act of 2011
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Samantha Dana
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Budget Process,
Debt & Deficit,
Education,
Health Care,
Military & Security,
Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net,
Transparency & Data
President Obama presented the American Jobs Act of 2011 on September 8th and sent it to Congress on September 12th. Want to know what it's all about? Here’s the rundown. How does it help… the unemployed? It makes it illegal for employers to discriminate against unemployed job applicants because of ...
A Decade After 9/11: The Dollars and Sense of War
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Jo Comerford
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Military & Security
10 numbers you need to know: $1.26 Trillion – Total amount appropriated by Congress for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through the end of Fiscal Year 2011 (September 30, 2011) – $797.3 billion for Iraq and $459.8 billion for Afghanistan. $7.6 Trillion – The total amount spent on “security” ...
White House Holds State Calls About Budget Deal
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Jo Comerford
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Budget Process,
Debt & Deficit,
Education,
Health Care,
Military & Security,
Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net,
Transparency & Data
The White House Office of Public Engagement has scheduled a series of ten state calls (see list and specific invitation below). Note there are two calls today (Wednesday) for folks in California and Colorado and the rest through the end of this week. You are welcome to forward this invitation ...
How Safe Are You? What Almost $8 Trillion in National Security Spending Bought You
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Chris Hellman
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Military & Security
NOTE: This article originally appeared on TomDispatch.com.The killing of Osama Bin Laden did not put cuts in national security spending on the table, but the debt-ceiling debate finally did. And mild as those projected cuts might have been, last week newly minted Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta was already digging ...
Mainers Want Their Federal Income Taxes Spent on Education, Health Care
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Jo Comerford
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Budget Process,
Debt & Deficit,
Education,
Health Care,
Military & Security
In the midst of Congressional debates about debt, budget cuts, and tax increases, a “penny poll” was held in every Maine county asking participants, “How would you like your federal tax dollars spent?” Mainers Larry Dansinger and Lisa Savage were among the leading coordinators of this effort.Education, health care, and ...
New Data: Defense Department Personnel
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Becky Sweger
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Military & Security,
Transparency & Data
A new indicator is now available in the Federal Priorities Database: Department of Defense Personnel: Number of civilian, military, and reserve national guard personnel employed by the Department of Defense.
New Data: Defense Procurement Contracts
By
Becky Sweger
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Military & Security,
Transparency & Data
We've added another federal expenditure to the Federal Priorities Database: Department of Defense Procurement Contracts: amount of procurement contracts awarded by the Department of Defense (by vendor location).