Analysis - /analysis/2020/no-warming-no-war/
April 22, 2020 - Climate change and militarism intersect in a variety of alarming ways: Recognizing that the impacts of climate change will dramatically increase instability around the globe, this paper examines ...
Analysis - /analysis/2020/tax-day-2020/
March 18, 2020 - Tax Day is delayed several months this year to July 15, 2020, due to the pandemic. Want to know what your taxes pay for, and how much?
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/03/05/save-lives-shift-pentagon-spending-public-health/
March 5, 2020 - The security of United States and the world depends on far more than throwing money at the Pentagon to deal with potential military challenges. The spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) unde...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/03/03/reallocate-defense-spending-fund-needs-at-home/
March 3, 2020 - While primary candidates have ambitiously taken on many pressing issues impacting South Carolinians, there’s another thing I encourage them to address: an excessive Pentagon budget that prioriti...
Analysis - /analysis/2020/toll-poverty/
March 2, 2020 - ...housing among families with children will cost the U.S. $111 billion in avoidable health and special education costs over the next ten years.2 - ...
Analysis - /analysis/2020/three-big-ideas-reducing-military-spending/
March 2, 2020 - The time has come for an end to the United States ill-conceived wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the moment is ripe for a new peace dividend. Today’s threats are mostly non-military in nature: ...
Analysis - /analysis/2020/fact-sheet-what-buy-instead-border-wall-updated/
March 2, 2020 - ...housing, nutrition and health care programs. Here are 5 ways Congress should invest $11.5 billion in our families, rather than tearing families apart: 1. BOOST FEDERAL FUNDING TO ...
Analysis - /analysis/2020/fact-sheet-militarism-united-states/
March 2, 2020 - Militarism and violence are the hallmarks of U.S. policy at home and abroad. From war to mass incarceration and beyond, these policies amplify poverty, racism and environmental degradation. They can a...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/02/12/trump-budget-proposal-speaks-to-his-values/
Feb. 12, 2020 - When we talk about hundreds of billions or even trillions of dollars, it’s easy to get lost in the massive numbers and to lose sight of what those changes in resources could really mean in the c...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/02/11/budgets-dont-lie-trump-enables-do/
Feb. 11, 2020 - Poverty is a moral crisis in America, but the Trump administration has changed the qualifying criteria for government assistance in order to celebrate that lower numbers of people now receive food sta...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/01/10/as-we-work-t-prevent-iran-war-time-to-end-all-wars/
Jan. 10, 2020 - Progressives are rightly mobilizing in force against war with Iran. Preventing another war is certainly imperative. In addition, we must recognize it is past time to end the endless wars in Iraq and A...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/12/15/hartung-lessons-battling-pentagon-four-decades/
Dec. 15, 2019 - As even Donald Trump has acknowledged, those trillions could have gone far in repairing America’s infrastructure and doing so much else in this country. In truth, as Lindsay Koshgarian of t...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/11/28/justice-opportunity-can-be-ours-in-abundance/
Nov. 28, 2019 - The outpouring of charitable giving we witness around the holidays reminds us of both the tremendous generosity of communities and our government’s failure to create a moral budget tha...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/11/21/border-wall-contention-defense-authorization-talks/
Nov. 21, 2019 - Lindsay Koshgarian, program director for the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, is skeptical either party would want to force the Department of Defense into a partial shu...
Analysis - /analysis/2019/five-ways-congress-should-invest-974-billion-instead-trumps-immigration-policy/
Nov. 15, 2019 - At least $9.74 billion of our tax dollars could be used to lift up our children and communities instead of tearing families apart.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/10/21/warren-pay-medicare-for-all/
Oct. 21, 2019 - The top-tier Democrat — whose motto is that she has a plan for everything — doesn’t have one yet for how to pay for universal health care.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/08/09/deficit-hawks-enabling-next-us-war/
Aug. 9, 2019 - The U.S. budget is rigged to hold essential domestic programs hostage to the Pentagon's war chest.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/07/26/why-did-democrats-pass-trumps-2-year-budget/
July 26, 2019 - The House on Thursday passed a massive $2.7 trillion budget bill with overwhelming support from Democrats and only 65 Republican votes. The bill suspends the looming debt ceiling for 2 years, until ju...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/07/05/peace-justice-poor-peoples-moral-budget/
July 5, 2019 - With community radio in Chico, California, NPP research analyst Ashik Siddique discusses the Trump military budget and trade-offs on how that money could be used elsewhere, as detailed in the Poor Peo...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/06/30/new-yorker-democrats-cautious-return-war-poverty/
June 30, 2019 - The Reverend Dr. William Barber’s Poor People’s Campaign believes that policymakers should speak both more specifically and more unapologetically about the plight of struggling Americans.
