Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/10/01/federal-money-everyones-morals/
Oct. 1, 2010 - ...housing, home care, childcare and education; yet, no budget documentation acknowledges this trade-off.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/09/24/around-town-activist-brings-war-dollars-measure-to/
Sept. 24, 2010 - A campaign to have money going toward war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan be returned for domestic priorities instead will be presented to fall Town Meeting.Town Meeting member Ruth Hooke this week sa...
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 - AMHERST - Town Meeting members will be asked to endorse a resolution aimed at pressuring national leaders to bring the money now being spent on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan back to local communities. ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/09/20/who-will-face-the-music-for-iraqs-future-a-sad-sot/
Sept. 20, 2010 - US President Barack Obama's August 31 speech, in which he announced the long-awaited drawdown of US combat troops in Iraq in line with his previous statements made all throughout his presidential camp...
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...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/09/03/whats-going-on-in-the-labs/
Sept. 3, 2010 - This is the first in a monthly series of updates letting you know what we're working on here in the Sunlight Labs offices.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/09/01/war-toll-is-heaviest-in-poor-rural-areas-research-/
Sept. 1, 2010 - ALLENDALE, S.C. --- Rodricka Youmans got tired of borrowing money from his father to pay the rent. It hurt his pride.Barely out of his teens and already tied down by the responsibilities of fatherhood...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/08/27/cleburne-taxpayers-will-spend-big-on-afghan-war/
Aug. 27, 2010 - ...housing and community, 3.7 to food, 3.5 to veterans benefits, 2.5 to the environment, energy and science, 2 cents to education and 1.3 to international affairs and 1.3 to transportation.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/08/26/in-search-of-real-security-part-one-a-closer-look-/
Aug. 26, 2010 - LIHUE—Ours is a nation obsessed with security. Two months after the bitter sting of the 9/11 attacks, the federal government formed the Transportation Security Administration and, one year later, the ...
Analysis - /analysis/2010/national-priorities-projects-trade-offs-tool-shows/
Aug. 24, 2010 - With all eyes on our nation's budget, National Priorities Project (NPP) has overhauled its Trade Offs Tool designed to clarify the magnitude and localized impact of federal spendin...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/08/24/national-priorities-projects-trade-offs-tool-shows/
Aug. 24, 2010 - WASHINGTON - August 24 - With all eyes on our nation's budget, National Priorities Project (NPP) has overhauled its Trade Offs Tool designed to clarify the magnitude and localized impact of federal sp...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/08/23/how-much-is-enough-americas-runaway-military-spend/
Aug. 23, 2010 - The August 9 announcement by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates of cost-containment measures at the Defense Department should not obscure two underlying facts. First, as he conceded, these proposed eco...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/08/19/stop-talkin-bout-a-greenwashed-revolution/
Aug. 19, 2010 - The most recent tally of the cost of war by the non-profit National Priorities Project (NPP) puts total military-related expenditures (through September, 2010) at a mind-numbing $1.09 trillion.
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/2010/07/15/pentagon-spending-on-the-chopping-block/
July 15, 2010 - The current economic crisis, coupled with concerns about spiraling deficits and our staggering national debt, is, at long last, bringing military spending to the forefront of the budget debate. Not si...
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/2010/07/07/preventing-and-curing-conflict/
July 7, 2010 - What if more of us saw war as a global health problem?
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/07/06/senate-candidate-kendrick-meek-says-wars-need-publ/
July 6, 2010 - With more than 1 million Floridians out of work, U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek said on the U.S. Senate campaign trail that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken a back seat to job creation."We have to...
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 ...
