Elbert Ventura - Progressive Fix
'Tis the season for deficit commissions. The past week has brought not one, not two, but three stabs at solving America's looming fiscal crisis. And just yesterday, the Brookings Institution hosted a panel discussion on "The Politics of Entitlement Reform and the Budget Deficit," featuring a murderers' row of budget ...
- Brookings Institute
In Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Senior Fellow Isabel Sawhill, director of Budgeting for National Priorities at Brookings, and Greg Anrig, vice president for policy at the Century Foundation, debated the pros and cons of major entitlement reform. On November 17, following the release of the Bipartisan Policy Center's Debt ...
Tom Engelhart - TomDispatch
You must have had a moment when you thought to yourself: It really isn't going to end, is it? Not ever. Rationally, you know perfectly well that whatever your "it" might be will indeed end, because everything does, but your gut tells you something different. I had that moment recently ...
National Priorities Project - Common Dreams
NORTH HAMPTON, MA - November 9 - On election night, Democrats and Republicans agreed - it's all about jobs, deficits and taxes.While they agree on the problem, they absolutely disagree on the solutions. And the big question is, what's going to happen in Congress? National Priorities Project's latest webinar Jobs, ...
William Astore - TomDispatch
You'd think that people always seeking "lessons" from war would draw one from our latest wonder weapon, which fights our wars for us without an American in sight. I'm talking, of course, about the drone aircraft that have, in recent years, become a signature form of American war-making. They represent ...
Sarah Fitzgibbons - Smith College Sophian
The Northampton City Council recently passed a resolution entitled "Bring the War Dollars Home" that calls for President Obama to put an immediate end to the U.S. occupation of Iraq and the war in Afghanistan. The resolution was based on data calculated and compiled by the National Priorities Project (NPP) ...
S. Strauss - PA Council of Churches
Town Meeting for Jobs Not Wars
- Went 2 the Bridge
I found an old sign out on the back porch yesterday. It had a pie chart of the FY09 federal budget with 51% for military. Our current pie charts show 54% of the federal budget pie spent on military. If Obama's FY11 budget request is met, the new pies we'll ...
Oregonian Editorial Board - The Oregonian
Repeal health care reform. Reduce the deficit. Cut taxes. Increase transparency. Rein in the banks. Block socialism. Reject the failed policies that drove the country into the ditch. Candidates hustling for votes are sounding a multitude of themes in their campaigns, but by and large are ignoring one that should ...
lsavage3 - YouTube
Jo Comerford, Exec. Director of National Priorities Project nationalpriorities.org explains the federal budget. Active Community Teach-in sponsored by Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine, 10-9-10, Bangor.
