Analysis - /analysis/2023/npp-ips-joins-calls-ceasefire-israel-and-occupied-palestine/
Oct. 19, 2023 - “A ceasefire is the only way to stop innocent suffering,” said Lindsay Koshgarian, Program Director of the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies.
Analysis - /analysis/2023/national-priorities-project-among-27-organizations-urging-emissions-transparency/
Aug. 14, 2023 - The National Priorities Project joins other organizations in a letter addressed to Congress leaders demanding the removal of anti-climate provisions in the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2024.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/08/01/Culture-Wars-Hijacking-Debate-on-Military-Budget/
Aug. 1, 2023 - ...military.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/07/12/dwight-was-right-say-no-to-military-contractors/
July 12, 2023 - The world Eisenhower warned about has materialized. We need more members of Congress to stand up to the arms industry and fight for social investments instead.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/06/13/debt-ceiling-reinforced-double-standard-military/
June 13, 2023 - There’s no price too high for the Pentagon, even while Washington claims the wealthiest country in the world apparently can’t afford to make sure all of its people have basic access to foo...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/06/06/surprise-congress-hide-defense-spending-ukraine/
June 6, 2023 - ...military in ‘emergency’ legislation.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/06/03/progressive-say-submitting-gop-ransom-debt-celing/
June 3, 2023 - "Here's the news media's takeaway on the debt ceiling deal: Yay! Bipartisanship works! Here's the reality: GOP radicals held the economy hostage, Democrats paid the ransom, and bipartisanship is badly...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/06/02/warfare-state-compromises-ourwelfare/
June 2, 2023 - 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 We...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/06/02/lockheed-ceo-hails-pentagon-budget-boost-debt-deal/
June 2, 2023 - ...military contractor said the Pentagon top-line in the debt ceiling deal is "as good an outcome as our industry or our company could ask for at this point."
Analysis - /analysis/2023/warfare-state-how-funding-militarism-compromises-our-welfare/
May 24, 2023 - Nearly two-thirds of the federal discretionary budget goes to militarized federal programs, leaving just over a third for our communities — a sliver some lawmakers want to cut even further.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/05/24/gop-debt-ceiling-gut-social-safety-net/
May 24, 2023 - On this edition of Your Call, we discuss ongoing negotiations over the debt ceiling.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/05/24/report-trillion-militarized-spending-crushing/
May 24, 2023 - "We keep hearing that our government can't afford nice things—or necessary things—for everyone," said the paper's co-author. "Yet militarized spending in the U.S. has almost doubled over t...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/05/08/unwarranted-influence-twenty-first-century-style/
May 8, 2023 - The MIC is consuming many more tax dollars and feeding far larger weapons producers than when President Eisenhower first raised the alarm about the “unwarranted influence” it wielded in 19...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/05/08/imagine-another-bernie-sanders-challenges-biden/
May 8, 2023 - ...military spending, either. In March, he proposed lavishing more on defense, adjusted for inflation, than the United States did at the height of the last Cold War.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/05/07/china-threat-needed-to-feed-us-military-industrial/
May 7, 2023 - Without an ‘enemy’, no taxpayer would fork out an average US$1,087 for Pentagon contractors over US$270 for their children’s subpar education
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/04/26/military-policing-say-no-federal-budget-violence/
April 26, 2023 - ...military spending and expand the police — and Republican proposals are worse.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/04/21/earth-day-consider-militarism-affects-environment/
April 21, 2023 - Earth Day is a time to reflect on the impact humans have on the environment and on how war and militarism are connected to and responsible for the biggest threat to the ecosystem and the world’s...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/04/19/ordinary-americans-subsidize-military-industrial/
April 19, 2023 - This year, the average American paid $1,087 in taxes just for Pentagon contractors alone. Imagine the kind of society we could construct with just a fraction of the resources we devote to war.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/04/18/where-does-my-tax-money-go-calculator-what-happens/
April 18, 2023 - Maybe you can’t get out of paying the Internal Revenue Service, but a little transparency never hurts.
Analysis - /analysis/2023/tax-day-2023/tax-day-2023-notes-and-sources/
April 17, 2023 - ...Military Military Personnel Includes outlays under Military subfunctions for the Bureau, “Military Personnel.” Military Contractors Includes all contracts awarded by the Department of ...
