Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/17/dutchess-taxpayers-have-spent-17-billion-since-200/
March 17, 2010 - Hi all...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/11/voters-must-choose-between-war-and-social-programs/
March 11, 2010 - To the Editor:
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/09/hellman-describes-process-priorities-of-national-b/
March 9, 2010 - ...of the National Priorities Project, visited Elon's campus Tuesday night to discuss the distribution of federal funds, particularly to the military, which traditionally has a very high budget.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/01/is-military-keynesianism-the-solution/
March 1, 2010 - ...ofit from increased military spending resulting from this surge of troops. At a time when unemployment in the domestic economy remains near 10%, it may seem convenient to fall back on the principle of...
Analysis - /analysis/2010/the-presidents-budget-fy2011/
Feb. 8, 2010 - This publication reviews Presidential budget requests spanning fiscal years 2008 to 2012 which include requested spending authorities from the final Bush budget to the Obama administration's projected...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/02/02/dont-call-it-a-defense-budget/
Feb. 2, 2010 - ...of "defense."Legitimate defense would cost a mere fraction of this budget.By autumn, the Pentagon is scheduled to have a total of 100,000 uniformed U.S. troops -- and a comparable number of private co...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/01/30/pentagon-shifts-its-strategy-to-small-scale-warfar/
Jan. 30, 2010 - ...of the military's most costly and complex weapons programs, including the Air Force's most advanced and expensive fighter, the F-22 Raptor. Reflecting a rebalancing of the military toward irregular wa...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/01/15/jared-loughner-and-the-paranoid-style/
Jan. 15, 2010 - ...of several books, including 'Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11' and most recently 'The Empire's New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power'. He spoke to NLPs Alex Doher...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/01/15/qa-cost-of-iraq-afghanistan-tops-1-trillion/
Jan. 15, 2010 - ...of August, from some 115,000 last month. The 50,000 can remain until the end of 2011, under an agreement with Baghdad.A year ago the Congressional Budget Office projected that additional costs for the...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/01/15/bill-moyers-journal/
Jan. 15, 2010 - ...of New Orleans, Detroit, Cleveland and a dozen other American inner cities. The people at the National Priorities Project have a "Cost of War" digital clock that includes all funding for the wars to d...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/11/30/afghan-war-cost-grips-both-parties/
Nov. 30, 2009 - ...costs of military operations in Afghanistan, which average about $3.6 billion per month.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/11/18/in-our-opinion-rethinking-priorities/
Nov. 18, 2009 - ...costs of our overseas wars, and the prospect of yet more local municipal budget cuts next year, we hope others in Washington and across the country will also consider NPP's analysis of federal spendin...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/10/26/where-the-cia-got-it-wrong-about-the-us/
Oct. 26, 2009 - Memo to the CIA: You may not be prepared for time-travel, but welcome to 2025 anyway! Your rooms may be a little small, your ability to demand better accommodations may have gone out the window, and t...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/10/08/stuck-in-kabul-with-saigon-blues-again/
Oct. 8, 2009 - ...of Kabul with the Saigon blues again, the "overseas contingency operations" of the Barack Obama administration continue to perpetrate a myth; never shall the words "Afghanistan" and "oil" be mentioned...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/10/06/eight-years-of-us-war-in-afghanistan-the-dollars-a/
Oct. 6, 2009 - ...of total costs. NPP has a host of Afghanistan War-related resources, including: Cost of War Counters: Afghanistan, Iraq and combined, http://www.costofwar.com/ War spending trade-offs: state, Congres...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/07/29/obama-defends-record-on-economy/
July 29, 2009 - ...war in Iraq." But the government so far has spent $669 billion on the Iraq war, according to the National Priorities Project. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the Iraq war ultimately...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/07/16/national-priorities-project-tallies-cost-of-war-th/
July 16, 2009 - ...war cost of $915.1 billion[3]. National Priorities Project (NPP) updated its Cost of War counters to reflect the new totals and to show the local costs of these wars to states and many cities. Please ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/05/15/96-billion-more-for-war/
May 15, 2009 - ...war spending could easily exceed $915 billion." The National Priorities Project's webpage features a "cost of war" counter as well as a "trade-offs" section, which calculates the localized cost of fed...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/05/08/cost-of-war-in-afghanistan-over-178-billion-and-co/
May 8, 2009 - ...costs of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq using an individual cost of war counter, calculating the state-level numbers and trade-offs of supplemental war spending. In my home state of Pennsylvania, fo...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/04/07/your-2008-tax-dollar-37-cents-to-military-28-cents/
April 7, 2009 - ...cost of the Iraq War, offering breakdowns of the cost by state, city and congressional district. Spring 2009 releases include a calculation of war costs for Afghanistan and Iraq and associated trade-o...
