Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/01/federal-money-everyones-morals/
Oct. 1, 2010 - ...federal investment in affordable housing, home care, childcare and education; yet, no budget documentation acknowledges this trade-off.
Blog - /blog/2010/09/29/serving-discretionary-budget-pizza-first-slice-ban/
Sept. 29, 2010 - ...federal tax dollars are spent. As a result, they feel disengaged from both the personal and societal impacts of federal spending and believe they ...
Blog - /blog/2010/09/21/fall-spotlight-energy/
Sept. 21, 2010 - Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000167 EndHTML:0000012525 StartFragment:0000000604 EndFragment:0000012509 On June 26, 2009 the U.S. House of Representatives passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/09/22/amherst-town-meeting-to-consider-war-dollars-measu/
Sept. 22, 2010 - ...federal coffers for other needs."Though wishing to curtail spending money on these wars, Hooke said the petitioners, part of the Alliance for Peace and Justice, do not want action taken that would put...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/09/11/peace-group-gathering-to-end-americas-longest-war/
Sept. 11, 2010 - On the ninth anniversary of 9-11, I recall the disbelief, shock, anger, fear and sadness I felt when I heard of the 3,000 people killed as terrorists used airplanes as weapons to attack the World Trad...
Blog - /blog/2010/09/07/fall-spotlight-education/
Sept. 7, 2010 - On March 13, 2010 the Obama Administration released its blueprint for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), known widely now by its most recent reincarnation, the Bush Admin...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/08/26/in-search-of-real-security-part-one-a-closer-look-/
Aug. 26, 2010 - ...federal government formed the Transportation Security Administration and, one year later, the Department of Homeland Security. In the decade that has followed we have been pounded with talk of securit...
Analysis - /analysis/2010/national-priorities-projects-trade-offs-tool-shows/
Aug. 24, 2010 - ...federal spending programs. The tool estimates FY2011 spending for select federal programs for individual states, counties, congressional districts, and towns. It then represents these dollar amounts i...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/08/24/national-priorities-projects-trade-offs-tool-shows/
Aug. 24, 2010 - ...federal spending programs. The tool estimates FY2011 spending for select federal programs for individual states, counties, congressional districts, and towns. It then represents these dollar amounts i...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/08/23/how-much-is-enough-americas-runaway-military-spend/
Aug. 23, 2010 - ...federal government's soaring deficits by making deep cuts in military spending."
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/08/14/americas-biggest-jobs-program-the-us-military/
Aug. 14, 2010 - America's biggest — and only major — jobs program is the U.S. military.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/07/23/rebuild-america-or-bomb-afghanistan-bring-our-war-/
July 23, 2010 - Meanwhile, a National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform is talking about cuts to Social Security, Medicare and the home mortgage deduction to address the nation's growing budget deficit.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/07/14/pratt-ge-escalate-engine-battle-in-congress/
July 14, 2010 - WASHINGTON-Two of Connecticut's corporate giants-Pratt & Whitney and General Electric Co.-have long been at loggerheads over a multi-million dollar spending item in the federal budget: $485 millio...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/07/11/whos-war-is-it-anyway/
July 11, 2010 - As recently as last month, President Barrack Obama in his speech to West Point cadets was defending his escalation of the war in Afghanistan. He called for an "international order that can meet challe...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/30/those-who-profited-from-deficit-spending-should-be/
June 30, 2010 - The United States can be fiscally responsible and meet the urgent necessities of the American people by stopping corporate welfare to concentrated industries, taxing the wealthiest that profited from ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/28/of-bubbles-and-bailouts/
June 28, 2010 - ...Federal Reserve, and other government agencies including the FDIC and the Federal Housing Authority. The tally is updated monthly and does not include stimulus funds, unemployment insurance payments, ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/22/what-are-our-congressional-representatives-thinkin/
June 22, 2010 - ...federal Medicaid funding for the states. Oh lovely. Also in today's mail, we see that the same Congressional representatives are seriously discussing cutting taxes for businesses, by allowing them t...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/10/mass-murder-in-charlottesvill-virginia/
June 10, 2010 - During the past five years since I moved back to Charlottesville, Virginia, I had yet to observe the slightest violent incident, prior to the recent spree of horrific mass murders. There was crime, bu...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/08/us-war-costs-1-trillion-and-counting/
June 8, 2010 - After nearly a decade of combat, U.S. spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan recently passed the $1 trillion mark, making them the biggest wartime expenditure since World War II, according to a ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/06/01/bringing-the-troops-and-war-dollars-home-a-forum-i/
June 1, 2010 - A couple of weeks ago there was a teach-in here in Northampton about the War in Afghanistan, its causes and effects. One of the workshops that followed involved an effort that began in Maine to urge ...
