Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/01/15/qa-cost-of-iraq-afghanistan-tops-1-trillion/
Jan. 15, 2010 - ...housing and equipment are included along with pay, food and fuel. Medical costs for the injured and veterans' compensation balloon as time goes on.In Iraq, the U.S. force is supposed to fall to 50,000...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2010/01/15/bill-moyers-journal/
Jan. 15, 2010 - ...housing units. Indeed, with money like that, we might be able to completely rebuild Haiti, ease the misery of those made homeless by that massive earthquake, and maybe even throw in the restoration of...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/11/30/afghan-war-cost-grips-both-parties/
Nov. 30, 2009 - WASHINGTON - A day before he is scheduled to announce a new strategy in Afghanistan, President Obama is under increasing pressure to explain how his administration intends to pay the rising costs of m...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/11/20/pointless-war-is-draining-funds-risking-security/
Nov. 20, 2009 - We often hear in American political rhetoric that the war in Iraq is unjust, but that Afghanistan is the "good war." It is important that we, as a nation, become aware that this is a false claim and t...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/11/18/in-our-opinion-rethinking-priorities/
Nov. 18, 2009 - ...housing. That scrutiny seems particularly appropriate as President Obama contemplates a request from Army officials for 44,000 additional troops for the war in Afghanistan.In fact, according to NPP, t...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/10/20/three-cheers-for-the-war-dividend/
Oct. 20, 2009 - ...Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, Health and Human Services, Labor, Education, and Veterans Affairs to suck it up. After all, Americans, however unemployed, foreclosed, or unmedicated, wi...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/10/08/stuck-in-kabul-with-saigon-blues-again/
Oct. 8, 2009 - Some things never change. It was "only" eight years ago that the George W Bush administration unleashed its mini-shock and awe over Afghanistan to, in theory, smash the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Stuck ins...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/10/06/eight-years-of-us-war-in-afghanistan-the-dollars-a/
Oct. 6, 2009 - ...housing units; or $89.2 million from people in Evanston, IL which equals 1,372 elementary school teachers." With the passage of the FY 2010 Department of Defense budget, total U.S. spending for the I...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/09/28/850-empty-combat-boots-stand-at-attention-in-obama/
Sept. 28, 2009 - WASHINGTON - September 28 - Military Families Speak Out (MFSO), a military family organization opposed to war and The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker organization dedicated to peac...
Analysis - /analysis/2009/health-care-information-npps-database-is-a-one-sto/
Aug. 26, 2009 - Health care is one of the most pressing issues of our time. National Priorities Project can help you participate in the healthcare debate. NPP is the only resource in the country providing data that s...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/07/29/obama-defends-record-on-economy/
July 29, 2009 - President Obama said during an appearance in North Carolina on Wednesday that the United States may be seeing the "beginning of the end of the recession" as he gave an impassioned defense of his admin...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/05/15/96-billion-more-for-war/
May 15, 2009 - WASHINGTON - May 15 - The Washington Post reports today, "The House passed a bill yesterday that would provide more than $96 billion in funding for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq through Sept. 30, a...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/05/08/cost-of-war-in-afghanistan-over-178-billion-and-co/
May 8, 2009 - ...Housing Units OR 460,546 Head Start Places for Children for One Year OR 46,575 Elementary School Teachers for One Year OR The list goes on and on. The fact is not nearly enough members of Congress are...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/04/07/your-2008-tax-dollar-37-cents-to-military-28-cents/
April 7, 2009 - ...housing and community programs and food-related programs. "The first page of our tax publication offers a look at Bush-era spending. The second page – focused on the environment, energy and science – ...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/02/26/where-the-money-goes/
Feb. 26, 2009 - ...housing units. In pursuit of green goals, the Bay Area's share of expenditures for the Iraq war could have provided upward of 10 million homes with renewable electricity for four years. Mostly, the di...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2009/02/08/spending-1-trillion-hard-to-fathom-for-some-lawmak/
Feb. 8, 2009 - ...housing units. It could rebuild every school in the country four times over. He admitted those estimates were rough: The calculator he was using didn't go up to 1 trillion. "It's a lot of money," he s...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2008/09/30/congress-should-stop-pointing-fingers-and-do-somet/
Sept. 30, 2008 - The U.S. Congress needs to get out of 'pointing fingers' mode and pass legislation that is sensible and addresses the problem of impact of the financial crisis on the economy, Wilbur Ross Jr., chairma...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2008/08/16/got-money/
Aug. 16, 2008 - ...housing crisis, is causing state sales tax revenues to fall as sales of furniture, appliances and building materials sag and consumers buy less generally, CBPP said. It pointed out that as property ta...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2008/04/21/peace-march-organizers-detail-iraq-wars-toll-on-we/
April 21, 2008 - ...housing for veterans. ??"We want to draw attention again to the war and the direct effect to the economic impact on Western Massachusetts," Barbara McGovern of Westfield said. The war has cost Westfie...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2008/03/18/five-years-of-war-billions-squandered-opportunitie/
March 18, 2008 - ...housing, the environment and job training combined! The National Priorities Project brings home the cost of war to taxpayers in each state, city and congressional district. These numbers are particula...
