Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/01/15/wars-on-iraq-and-terror-cost-6-trillion/
Jan. 15, 2020 - Jan talks with Lindsay Koshgarian from the National Priorities Project about her recent article in The Progressive Magazine entitled “Can’t Afford Another War”. She refers ...
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/2020/01/09/corporations-and-democracy/
Jan. 9, 2020 - We want health care coverage and a Green New Deal, but how do we pay for it? While the Democratic presidential candidates are talking about taxing the rich - which is fair enough - Ashik Siddique poin...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/01/08/we-cant-afford-another-war/
Jan. 8, 2020 - The United States spent over 800 billion dollars on the war in Iraq, while social services and infrastructure crumbled at home.
Analysis - /analysis/2020/unified-budget-demilitarize-america-home-and-abroad/
Jan. 7, 2020 - NPP's Ashik Siddique addresses the Congressional Progressive Caucus Summit to explain how we could safely shift as much as $350 billion per year away from the Pentagon by ending the endless wars, clos...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/12/19/swords-into-plowshares-or-wind-solar-we-could-have/
Dec. 19, 2019 - Yes, the United States could be generating 100% of its electricity from renewable energy if we had used the money spent on our ill-advised wars in the Middle East to build wind and solar systems, as w...
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/2019/12/13/letter-to-editor-news-not-fit-to-print/
Dec. 13, 2019 - ...military spending.
Analysis - /analysis/2019/poor-peoples-moral-budget/poor-peoples-moral-budget-full-report/
Dec. 11, 2019 - In April 2018, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival released a Moral Agenda and Declaration of Fundamental Rights. The demands contained within that document p...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/12/03/navy-22-billion-nuclear-submarines-how-to-pay/
Dec. 3, 2019 - "If you're following the presidential race, you've heard plenty of sniping about Medicare for All and whether we can afford it. But when it comes to endless war or endless profits for Pentagon contrac...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/11/21/border-wall-contention-defense-authorization-talks/
Nov. 21, 2019 - ...military leaders have cautioned operating under a CR causes complications and delays for existing programs and those planned for the upcoming year.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/11/21/phyllis-bennis-november-2020-democratic-debate/
Nov. 21, 2019 - ...military budget. Now the question has to be: How much?” My colleagues at the National Priorities Project have put together the numbers, where these cuts can come from." - Phyllis Bennis
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/2019/11/05/talk-nation-radio-how-ya-gonna-pay-for-it/
Nov. 5, 2019 - How are we gonna pay for big things like Medicare for All? NPP director Lindsay Koshgarian explains.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/11/05/overturning-ACA-massive-tax-cut-for-wealthy/
Nov. 5, 2019 - ...military budgets if the U.S. were to change its foreign policy.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/11/03/analysis-confirms-medicare-for-all-cost-fortune/
Nov. 3, 2019 - ...military budget by more than $300 billion in order to finance Medicare for All.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/10/24/warren-tough-choices-funding-medicare-for-all/
Oct. 24, 2019 - Some experts say Medicare for All could be funded by looking at other areas of the federal budget, like the Pentagon.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/10/21/there-is-a-way-to-pay-for-medicare-for-all/
Oct. 21, 2019 - ...military spending and Pentagon waste.
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/2019/10/18/survey-americans-want-progressive-foreign-policy/
Oct. 18, 2019 - ...military budget.
