Article - /pressroom/articles/2007/11/05/state-benefits-from-defense-spending/
Nov. 5, 2007 - Item not found.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2007/08/13/guns-versus-butter-our-real-economic-challenge/
Aug. 13, 2007 - ...us butter. It's the classic debate that really tells us a lot about our priorities that we set for the kind of society we can expect to live in -- how much money a country spends on the military versu...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2007/08/09/military-widens-door-for-dropouts/
Aug. 9, 2007 - ...Defense analyst Cindy Williams at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., said the military could be hurting itself over the long term by recruiting dropouts. The Department of ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2007/05/07/are-iraq-war-costs-spinning-out-of-control/
May 7, 2007 - ...ush vetoed a $124 billion war-spending bill because it contained timetables for troop withdrawal. Of that amount, some $93 billion was for the Iraq war in fiscal 2007. Mr. Bush's new budget asks for $...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2007/04/13/how-uncle-sam-spends-your-tax-money/
April 13, 2007 - ...usetts-based National Priorities Project released a study called Where Do Your Tax Dollars Go? focusing on this discretionary chunk of spending. The median income for a U.S. family—defined as a househ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2007/02/07/bush-congress-tackle-shifts-in-spending/
Feb. 7, 2007 - ...spending plan to make it through the process intact, the Bush budget has staked out the battles that will have a big impact on American's own household budgets. Though thousands of line items deep, Bu...
Analysis - /analysis/2007/the-presidents-budget-fy2008/
Feb. 5, 2007 - ...spending. Compared to fiscal year 2006, $13 billion would be cut from these programs, while another $100 billion would be added for more war spending. State-level tables and other information are no...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2006/12/06/obama-cuts-domestic-spending-and-increases-militar/
Dec. 6, 2006 - ...Defense has been given about $7.2 trillion since 1998, which is when the post–cold war decline in defense spending ended. Current spending is above the peak years of the Vietnam War era and the Reagan...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2006/11/20/all-war-all-the-time/
Nov. 20, 2006 - ...ust publishing his latest book, War Is A Lie, as this post appears. In his usual vigorous fashion, he takes on every argument used to justify war and all the lies we've unfortunately grown so painful...
Analysis - /analysis/2005/impact-of-presidents-budget-proposal-on-states/
Feb. 8, 2005 - ...ush Administration sent to Congress its budget request for fiscal year 2006. Under the proposed budget, discretionary spending would increase overall