Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/05/12/victory-in-afghanistan-a-fools-dream/
May 12, 2010 - ongress is being asked to vote on another appropriations bill for billions more dollars to fund military operations in Afghanistan despite reservations among many members about the corrupt regime of A...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/05/11/flushing-more-money-down-the-afghan-toilet/
May 11, 2010 - Isn't it time to call what Congress will soon vote on by its right name: war escalation funding?
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/05/10/snccs-50th-thoughts-from-sue-thrasher/
May 10, 2010 - Many thanks to activist, writer, and educator Sue Thrasher for sharing these thoughts on the recent SNCC conference. We have posted them with some photos taken by historian Patrick D. Jones. Take a lo...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/05/09/the-folly-of-nation-building/
May 9, 2010 - Since 9-11, American foreign policy has become markedly interventionist and excessively costly. According to the National Priorities Project, Congress to date has allocated $747.3 billion to the war i...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/05/06/rpt-factox-a-look-at-costs-of-afghan-war-to-us-tax/
May 6, 2010 - President Barack Obama's request in February for more money to pay for the war in Afghanistan is still snarled in Congress as lawmakers work on other priorities and deal with scarce budget resources.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/05/04/mushrooms-keep-sprouting/
May 4, 2010 - Anthropologist Margaret Mead is credited with the statement, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Mead s...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/05/01/its-time-to-rethink-the-cost-of-wars/
May 1, 2010 - The National Priorities Project estimates that it cost the U.S. taxpayers $1.05 trillion dollars to fund the Iraq and Afghanistan wars through the end of Fiscal Year 2010. In March, the administration...
Analysis - /analysis/2010/us-jobs-and-budget-crises-local-impacts/
April 30, 2010 - A jobless recovery...State and local budget crises...Federal spending and tax policies...New jobs legislation on Capitol Hill. They all affect you. This packet of resources provides current state and ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/30/high-speed-rail-a-national-security-priority/
April 30, 2010 - By Paul Scaglia
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/22/guns-vs-butter-2010/
April 22, 2010 - See if you can identify the bleeding heart liberal who said this:
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/21/2010-us-spending-priorities-58-to-military/
April 21, 2010 - ...housing assistance. Mandatory spending includes programs, mostly entitlement programs, which are funded by eligibility rules or payment rules. Congress decides to create a program, for example, Food ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/17/local-budgets-and-war-spending-a-reflection-for-ta/
April 17, 2010 - From every corner of America urban, suburban and rural the news of shrinking budgets and slashed community services sounds forth like a tragic Greek chorus.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/15/where-your-tax-dollars-went/
April 15, 2010 - Where your tax dollars went
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/13/price-of-war-too-high/
April 13, 2010 - As America inches closer to a decade of war, the cost increasingly is being questioned. People who years ago might have feared being called unpatriotic are lambasting the trillion dollars spent since ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/04/01/where-did-your-2009-federal-income-tax-dollars-go/
April 1, 2010 - NORTHAMPTON, Mass. - April 1 - As April 15, 2010 approaches, taxpayers can take stock of how the federal government spent each of their 2009 federal income tax dollars. In its annual release, Where di...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/22/students-go-gaga-want-out-of-bad-romance-with-obam/
March 22, 2010 - It's a Friday afternoon at Farragut Square, a genteel park just a few blocks from the White House in downtown Washington. Office workers, tourists and the occasional homeless person soak up the aftern...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/20/a-civilized-riot-a-movement-for-health-care-justic/
March 20, 2010 - Congressman Alan Grayson (D-Florida) has been waging his own war on corporate insurance forces determined to maintain the fiscal "slaver's whip" by proposing a straightforward public option plan throu...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/18/seven-years-later/
March 18, 2010 - Late last week, in advance of the release of proposed 2011 fiscal budgets by the state House and Senate, Massachusetts legislative leaders sent a message to local governments across the Commonwealth: ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/18/cost-of-wars-to-climb-as-congress-votes-to-continu/
March 18, 2010 - On March 10, 2010, Ohio Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich brought up a resolution to pull our troops out of Afghanistan within the next year. The bill was drafted to make Congress "claim responsibility ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/03/17/dutchess-taxpayers-have-spent-17-billion-since-200/
March 17, 2010 - Hi all...
