Blog - /blog/2012/04/11/top-five-fun-facts-about-irs/
April 13, 2012 - ...of fun.”That’s pretty much the sentiment of most Americans when it comes to paying taxes, which is a subject of a lot of jokes. ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/04/13/fifth-grader-says-im-mad-at-the-government/
April 13, 2012 - ...of Bresee Community Center in Los Angeles, "we would buy materials to build homeless shelters, rehabilitation centers, skate parks and soccer fields."
Analysis - /analysis/2012/presidents-budget-fy2013/military/
March 29, 2012 - President Obama’s new budget includes $525 billion for the Department of Defense. Adjusted for inflation, that’s 2.6 percent less than fiscal 2012 levels. That’s the first cut to the...
Blog - /blog/2012/03/26/you-ask-we-answer-money-gone-missing/
March 26, 2012 - ...of Kennewick, Washington, wrote in to ask about tax revenues. In particular, she wanted to know if federal revenue has gone down over the past several decades with the enactment of lower tax rates and...
Blog - /blog/2012/02/22/Fiscal-Year-2013-Pentagon-Spending-Request/
Feb. 23, 2012 - ...of Defense (DoD) in Fiscal Year 2013, which begins on October 1, 2012. Adjusted for inflation, this is 2.6 percent below FY2012 levels, the ...
Analysis - /analysis/2012/analysis-fiscal-year-2013-pentagon-spending-request/
Feb. 16, 2012 - ...of Defense, not including funding for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan or the nuclear weapons activities of the Department of Energy. The Pentagon is seeking ways to reduce spending by $487...
Video - /videos/2012/2/13/budget-brief-cost-of-war/
Feb. 13, 2012 - ...Cost of War NPP's Chris Hellman examines the costs of war up to this date, and what will be changing in the next few years. Budget Process, Military & Security, Transparency & Data
Blog - /blog/2012/02/13/budget-brief-cost-of-war/
Feb. 13, 2012 - ...cost of war up to this point, and looks at what will be changing in the next few years.
Blog - /blog/2012/02/10/tracking_cost_of_war/
Feb. 10, 2012 - ...of Iraq, National Priorities Project has tracked the costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Recent events including the end of U.S. combat operations in Iraq and the winding down of the troop &ldq...
Analysis - /analysis/2012/talking-about-military-spending-and-the-pentagon-budget/
Feb. 8, 2012 - ...of projected Pentagon spending.
Blog - /blog/2012/02/03/Pentagon-Budget-Going-Down/
Feb. 3, 2012 - ...war costs and the nuclear weapons-related activities of the Department of Energy.Adjusted for inflation this ...
Analysis - /analysis/2012/an-economy-thats-built-to-last-the-2012-state-of-the-union-address/
Jan. 26, 2012 - ...of the Union Address in his first term as president.
Blog - /blog/2011/09/20/cost_of_war/
Sept. 20, 2011 - ...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”...
Analysis - /analysis/2011/whats-at-stake/
Aug. 22, 2011 - ...offers 50 state-level briefs focused on the local impact of war spending.
Blog - /blog/2011/08/16/How-Safe-Are-You/
Aug. 16, 2011 - 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 ...
Analysis - /analysis/2011/afghan-war-costs-compared-state-budget-shortfalls/
June 27, 2011 - ...of Columbia are projecting budget shortfalls for FY2012 totaling $102.9 billion. This amount could be wiped out entirely by the amount spent on the war in Afghanistan this year ($122 billion in FY2011...
Blog - /blog/2011/06/20/order-form-more-perfect-union-nations-mayors-resolve-end-wars/
June 20, 2011 - ...officials from cities across the country are meeting for the 79th time since the founding of the U.S. Conference of Mayors during the Great Depression. The group consists of more than 1,200 mayors, re...
Analysis - /analysis/2011/annual-costs-war-afghanistan/
June 7, 2011 - ...of its "Cost of War" analysis, NPP has calculated the total cost of the war in Afghanistan.
Analysis - /analysis/2011/us-security-spending-since-911/
May 26, 2011 - ...of Osama Bin Laden by U.S. special forces prompted a great many questions about the continued U.S. war in Afghanistan, and how much the United States has spent on “security” since the atta...
Analysis - /analysis/2011/presidents-budget-fy2012/defining-fy2012-budget-debate/
April 20, 2011 - House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s “Path for Prosperity” and the Congressional Progressive Caucus’s (CPC) “People’s Budget” are more than competing b...
