Blog - /blog/2023/06/28/peek-poor-people-campaigns-moral-poverty-action-congress/
- Last week, hundreds of people from the Poor People's Campaign assembled in Washington DC to fight against poverty.
Blog - /blog/2023/05/31/parity-schmarity-military-big-winner-fy-2024-budget-deal/
- The budget deal struck by the White House and House Republicans begins what could be a long-term shift in federal spending from domestic programs toward the Pentagon.
Blog - /blog/2023/05/04/us-still-spends-more-its-military-over-144-countries-combined/
- ...military is a major cause of the crises we face today. But it’s possible to reinvest in real solutions and begin to repair the harm caused by many decades of war.
Blog - /blog/2023/04/28/climate-militarism-converges-power-shift-2023/
- Power Shift 2023 makes space for the coming together of ideas and movements, including climate and militarism.
Blog - /blog/2023/04/19/breaking-down-your-tax-bill/
- ...military contractors alone last year.
Blog - /blog/2023/03/27/biden-budget-does-some-good-poverty-and-fairness-it-could-do-more-if-it-cut-pentagon/
- The president’s budget proposal for the next fiscal year, released March 9, was heralded by human needs groups for preserving and in some cases expanding critical human needs programs ...
Blog - /blog/2023/03/23/20-years-what-did-iraq-war-truly-cost/
- The war claimed more than lives and treasure — it claimed a future’s worth of lost opportunities. Now, younger generations are demanding them back.
Blog - /blog/2023/03/15/one-highest-military-budgets-history/
- ...military spending is higher than the height of military spending during the Reagan years at the height of the Cold War. Looking further back, the Biden request is higher than the height of the Vietnam...
Blog - /blog/2023/03/09/quarter-bidens-budget-will-go-pentagon-contractors/
- ...military, fully two-thirds would go to a combination of the military, veterans’ programs, and heavily militarized homeland security programs.
Blog - /blog/2022/12/02/pentagon-fails-audit-asks-more-money-again/
- Can you imagine the audacity to fail a multi-trillion dollar audit of public funds, and then ask for even more of those taxpayer dollars?
Blog - /blog/2022/11/15/defueling-red-hill-not-enough-its-time-demilitarize-asia-pacific/
- ...military.
Blog - /blog/2022/10/03/what-does-national-security-mean-without-climate-security/
- This country’s spending on the Pentagon and nuclear weapons is done in the name of “national security.” Not to mention the billions more for “homeland security,” largely ...
Blog - /blog/2022/09/07/relieving-all-student-debt-would-cost-much-f35-jet-fighter/
- Total student loan debt in the United States amounts to $1.7 trillion — that's already how much the Pentagon is set to spend on its most expensive weapon system, the F-35 jet fighter.
Blog - /blog/2022/08/01/police-violence-gun-violence-too/
- If we really want to curb gun violence in this country, our nation’s police budgets are a good place to start.
Blog - /blog/2022/07/08/dont-give-100-billion-pentagon-do-instead/
- Even $100 billion is actually a modest cut when it comes to the Pentagon. We could cut much more and end up even safer. But when that $37 billion or $100 billion can do so much good elsewhere, it's un...
Blog - /blog/2022/07/06/while-nation-reels-pentagon-budget-keeps-ramping-nuclear-weapons/
- ...military spending budget set to pass as part of the FY23 National Defense Authorization Act, the amount spent on nuclear weapons alone over the next decade is much more than the deficit increase of th...
Blog - /blog/2022/06/24/pentagon-increases-2022-could-almost-fund-build-back-better/
- Remember Build Back Better? Way back in December, President Biden and advocates across a wide spectrum of issues fought to fund the president's signature plan, which included major new invve...
Blog - /blog/2022/06/22/us-still-spends-more-military-next-nine-countries-combined/
- ...military spending, with its $801 billion in 2021 representing 39% of the world’s military budget.
Blog - /blog/2022/05/09/its-almost-if-military-spending-isnt-key-peace/
- U.S. and NATO miltiary spending totaling nearly $1.2 trillion - more than 17 times as much as Russia spent - failed to dissuade Putin's aggression toward Ukraine. The U.S. alone spent 12 times as much...
Blog - /blog/2022/04/18/tax-day-2022-we-got-receipts/
- How does our government actually spend our tax dollars? Around Tax Day, it’s fair to wonder. Most of us never find out. But at NPP, we got the receipts.
