Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/05/29/two-choices-before-us/
May 29, 2012 - CROSSVILLE — This week started off with two historic commemorations—a religious event that turned political, and a political event that turned religious.
Blog - /blog/2012/05/24/veterans-and-cost-war/
May 25, 2012 - Since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003, National Priorities Project has tracked the costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We have focused on the tax dollars expended related to the conduct...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/05/24/us-defense-cuts-hit-home-at-ohio-tank-plant/
May 24, 2012 - Jeff Bingman
Blog - /blog/2012/05/22/accounting-war/
May 23, 2012 - The last U.S. combat forces were withdrawn from Iraq on Dec. 15, 2011. And this past week at the NATO summit in Chicago, member nations endorsed President Obama’s plan to remove most foreign com...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/05/22/on-the-war-path-the-nearly-1-trillion-national-sec/
May 22, 2012 - Recent months have seen a flurry of headlines about
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/05/22/just-how-much-does-washington-spend-on-national-se/
May 22, 2012 - The Pentagon base budget of $530 billion is only
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/05/22/one-trillion-for-defense/
May 22, 2012 - Recent months have seen a flurry of headlines about cuts (often called “threats”) to the U.S. defense budget. Last week, lawmakers in the House of Representatives even passed a bill that was meant to ...
Video - /videos/2012/5/21/budget-brief-veterans-benefits/
May 21, 2012 - ...Military & Security, Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net
Blog - /blog/2012/05/21/you-ask-we-answer-funding-veterans-plus-military/
May 21, 2012 - ...military spending, since they're both part of a larger national security category.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/05/17/what-priorities-are-being-set-for-our-nation-are-t/
May 17, 2012 - The GOP constantly cries over the debt limit and evokes the “spending
Blog - /blog/2012/05/15/knowledge-power-and-you-dont-have-take-my-word-it/
May 15, 2012 - This week we announced the release of our new book A People’s Guide to the Federal Budget, and in yesterday’s blog post we admitted to being idealists: A book can change the world, we said...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/05/12/were-fighting-in-a-war-we-lost-before-the-war-bega/
May 12, 2012 - It shouldn’t surprise anyone, but support for the longest U.S. war is dropping further and faster than ever. The latest national U.S. poll, released on May 9, shows 66 percent of Americans are against...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/05/09/this-sunny-west-coast-state-has-lost-more-troops-i/
May 9, 2012 - Since Operation Enduring Freedom - Afghanistan began in October of 2001, the United States has sustained more than 15,858 overall casualties (war injuries) and 1,526 killed-in-action fatalities, accor...
Video - /videos/2012/5/8/if-paychecks-could-talk/
May 8, 2012 - ...Military & Security, Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net, Taxes & Revenue
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/05/06/letter-eisenhower-was-right-about-military-sapping/
May 6, 2012 - When Congress could not agree on spending cuts for the purpose of reining in the national debt, a six-member bipartisan supercommittee was set up with the same results: gridlock.
Video - /videos/2012/4/30/budget-brief-same-slice-different-pie/
April 30, 2012 - ...Military & Security, Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net, Transparency & Data
Blog - /blog/2012/04/30/you-ask-we-answer-how-much-federal-budget-funds-military/
April 30, 2012 - ...military is more than half the budget. But in others, you see that it's much less than that. Let's settle this once and for all.
Video - /videos/2012/4/20/budget-brief-spring-cleaning/
April 20, 2012 - ...Military & Security, Transparency & Data
Article - /pressroom/articles/2012/04/18/can-women-change-the-story-of-the-niger-delta/
April 18, 2012 - “The whole fight for resource control has led to the eruption and escalation of all manner of conflict and violence in the Niger Delta. It’s all about power and control in light of the oil revenue.”
Blog - /blog/2012/04/16/new-data-nuclear-research-and-development/
April 16, 2012 - There's a new dataset available in the Federal Priorities Database: Nuclear Energy Research and Development: shows U.S. Federal spending (by state and by county) on research, development, and demonstr...
