Analysis - /analysis/2008/the-presidents-budget-fy2009/
Feb. 6, 2008 - ...of the budget proposal along with state-level breakdowns on selected programs are available.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2007/10/23/president-bush-presses-congress-for-extra-42-bn-to/
Oct. 23, 2007 - ...of military funding, spending which should ensure the cost of the Iraq war rises over the $500 billion mark early in the new year. His request for an additional $42 billion brings the total budget for...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2007/10/08/a-troubling-turn-in-american-history/
Oct. 8, 2007 - ...of that freedom required absolute readiness to destroy the world. The chill of Cold War "realism" froze the American conscience. An unexpected thaw (warming Gorbachev and Reagan) ended the Cold War bl...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2007/09/26/analysis-outsourcing-war-is-good-business/
Sept. 26, 2007 - ...cost of the war," Bilmes told The New Statesman. This of course does not apply to the private army contracted by the Pentagon. With the cost of the war to the U.S. taxpayer draining approximately $200...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2007/08/30/dude-wheres-our-24-billion/
Aug. 30, 2007 - ...war profiteering, they were voted down by Republicans. When these same Law-and-Order Democrats proposed legislation to increase penalties and jail sentences for those convicted of war profiteering cri...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2007/08/09/military-widens-door-for-dropouts/
Aug. 9, 2007 - ...of them years out of school — with a promise of helping them get their GEDs if they enlist. So far, more than 13,000 recruits have earned GEDs through the program, started in 2005. The Army pays the c...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2007/07/18/analysis-bushs-failed-mideast-policy/
July 18, 2007 - ...of Haifa. Tens of thousands of people were forced to flee to safer locations in the southern half of the country. The fighting forced the port of Haifa to shut at the cost of millions of dollars of lo...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2007/05/07/are-iraq-war-costs-spinning-out-of-control/
May 7, 2007 - ...war's cost was $423 billion, according to an online cost meter posted by the National Priorities Project, a Washington advocacy group (http://costofwar.com/index.html).The last five digits on the mete...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2007/05/05/what-does-456-billion-buy/
May 5, 2007 - ...of troop deadlines for US soldiers in Iraq, all sides seem to be on board with the amount included in the bill to fund the war. Including the $124.2 billion bill, the total cost of the Iraq war may re...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2007/04/13/how-uncle-sam-spends-your-tax-money/
April 13, 2007 - ...of data from the Office of Management & Budget. The analysis reveals that the biggest share of discretionary tax dollars for that median tax bill—$1,014, or 31 cents per dollar—goes toward Pentago...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2007/02/07/iraq-war-spending-request-brings-total-to-456-bill/
Feb. 7, 2007 - ...ofit, non-partisan research group that studies the local impact of federal policies. NPP offers an analysis of the President's budget and war spending requests that includes state-level breakdowns. NP...
Analysis - /analysis/2007/the-presidents-budget-fy2008/
Feb. 5, 2007 - ...war spending. State-level tables and other information are now available. State-level factsheets are also available.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2007/01/24/more-troops-more-dollars/
Jan. 24, 2007 - ...offers state level data on the number of killed and wounded in Iraq and the cost of the war for two major cities in each state.??"Over 100,000 people search out the cost of war on our website every mo...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2006/12/06/obama-cuts-domestic-spending-and-increases-militar/
Dec. 6, 2006 - ...wars, remains ignorant of the real costs. Reasons for the lack of public knowledge about military spending include: lack of corporate media coverage altogether; media employing retired military office...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2006/10/30/the-face-of-war-dont-look/
Oct. 30, 2006 - ...costs and realities of war. It sees war as having analgesic qualities -- as lessening a collective feeling of impotence, a collective sense of fear and terror. Making war in the name of reducing ter...
Analysis - /analysis/2005/impact-of-presidents-budget-proposal-on-states/
Feb. 8, 2005 - On Monday, February 7, 2005, the Bush Administration sent to Congress its budget request for fiscal year 2006. Under the proposed budget, discretionary spending would increase overall
