The Warfare State Compromises our Welfare

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This is Hell!
Chuck Mertz
06/02/2023

Episode 1599: The Warfare State Compromises our Welfare / Lindsay Koshgarian & Ashik Siddique

"We need more movements that are representing us. There is actually a poor people's campaign and we work closely with them. One of the things they work for is to cut military spending and put that spending into social programs that actually benefit people so that we don't have 140 million people in this country who are struggling just to get by while military contractors are taking in billions of dollars and using that to turn around massive profits for their shareholders and multi-million dollar salaries for their CEOs."

This Is Hell! · The Warfare State Compromises our Welfare / Lindsay Koshgarian & Ashik Siddique

Lindsay Koshgarian and Ashik Siddique, co-authors of the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies report, “The Warfare State: How Funding for Militarism Compromises Our Welfare. You can check out there report here: www.nationalpriorities.org/analysis/20…ur-welfare/

Lindsay Koshgarian is Lindsay's work and commentary on the federal budget and military spending has appeared on NPR, the BBC, CNN, The Nation, U.S. News and World Report, and others. At NPP, her work is at the intersection of military and domestic federal spending.

Ashik Siddique is a research analyst for the National Priorities Project, working on analysis of the federal budget and military spending.