Article - /pressroom/articles/2011/01/26/national-priorities-project-looks-at-the-numbers-b/
Jan. 26, 2011 - Northampton, MA - As the nation reflects on last night's State of the Union address by President Obama, National Priorities Project offers a look at the numbers behind many of the major topics covered...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2011/01/25/proposed-pentagon-budget-cuts-fact-of-spin/
Jan. 25, 2011 - ...Defense Gates announced his proposed cuts to the Pentagon budget. President Reagan's budget director, David Stockman called Gate's proposal of $78 billion cut to US defense spending, a mere "pin-prick...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2011/01/24/rep-dennis-kucinich-says-defense-spending-consumes/
Jan. 24, 2011 - ...spending started weeks earlier. Rep. Dennis Kucinich opened it with a call to question the cost of wars.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2011/01/20/battle-brews-over-us-marines-efv-larger-misison/
Jan. 20, 2011 - ...us landing vehicle canceled by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, but the larger battle may be over Pentagon plans to shift away from the Marine Corps' storm-the-beaches mission.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2011/01/12/cost-of-war-breaking-it-down-112/
Jan. 12, 2011 - ...ustrial complex."
Article - /pressroom/articles/2011/01/07/defense-secretary-to-cancel-orders-of-f-35-jet/
Jan. 7, 2011 - ...Defense, will cancel the orders of F-35 jet as part of a wider plan to lessen the spending of Pentagon by $100 billion.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2011/01/07/city-man-influencing-national-defense-spending-pol/
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Article - /pressroom/articles/2011/01/05/obama-cuts-domestic-spending-increases-military-co/
Jan. 5, 2011 - ...spending will result in the greatest administrative military spending since World War II. This decision is being made despite extreme waste, fraud, abuse and corporate welfare in the military budget. ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2011/01/05/gates-expected-to-slice-orders-for-f-35-as-part-of/
Jan. 5, 2011 - Defense Secretary Robert Gates plans to cut orders for the F-35 joint strike fighter over the next three to five years as part of broader plan to reduce Pentagon spending by $100 billion, analysts say...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/12/30/100-year-war-the-growing-expense-of-americas-battl/
Dec. 30, 2010 - ...us insects — nearly 70 years have passed since he returned from World War II, but it's all right there.
Blog - /blog/2010/12/28/lame-duck-had-wings/
Dec. 28, 2010 - ...usiness – the Fiscal Year 2011 budget. And while they failed to complete work on the budget – the government is currently running on a “continuing resolution” that ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/12/17/the-obama-administrations-first-budget-shows-progr/
Dec. 17, 2010 - ...spending related to renewable energy is a crucial step in liberating our nation's dependence on oil, an equally critical step is reducing our spending to prop up our oil habit. About 85% of US energy ...
Blog - /blog/2010/11/30/dollars-and-sense-nuclear-weapons/
Nov. 30, 2010 - In Prague last April, President Obama raised the world’s hopes with his speech calling for a “nuclear free future.” Since then, his Administration has made non-proliferation – preventing the spread of...
Blog - /blog/2010/11/16/all-hands-debt-entering-critical-debate-over-federal-deficit-reduction/
Nov. 16, 2010 - ...use Chief-of-Staff Erskine Bowles -- released their draft deficit reduction proposal. The Simpson-Bowles plan seeks to reduce the deficit by $372 billion in Fiscal Year 2015, more ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/11/14/tomgram-engelhart-war-to-horizon/
Nov. 14, 2010 - ...us package in one of the few places where President Obama can, by executive fiat, increase stimulus spending. It has already resulted in the hiring of 500 Afghan workers and when construction ramps u...
Blog - /blog/2010/10/18/worried-about-deficit-why-not-choose-sustainable-defense/
Oct. 18, 2010 - ...ushing.On October 13, 2010 they sent a letter to the President’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform advocating defense cuts. The letter contains a broad range of options for ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/16/changing-the-nations-spending-priorities-from-war-/
Oct. 16, 2010 - ...uses to the event as part of the 90 peace organizations that comprised the Peace Table of ONWT. At last count, at least 90 New Jersey buses went to D.C.! The Bloomfield bus was nearly full and carried...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/14/northampton-passes-resolution-to-bring-the-war-dol/
Oct. 14, 2010 - ...US troops. According to the Department of Defense, 4,400 US troops have been killed in Iraq while 1,140 have lost their lives serving their country in Afghanistan. Over 39,000 US troops have been wo...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/01/federal-money-everyones-morals/
Oct. 1, 2010 - ...spending are made at the expense of federal investment in affordable housing, home care, childcare and education; yet, no budget documentation acknowledges this trade-off.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/01/one-nation-saving-the-american-dream/
Oct. 1, 2010 - ...usands of citizens will converge on Washington for a historic march.
