Blog - /blog/2011/09/20/cost_of_war/
Sept. 20, 2011 - 10 numbers you need to know: $1.26 Trillion – Total amount appropriated by Congress for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through the end of Fiscal Year 2011 (September 30, 2011) – $797.3 billion for I...
Analysis - /analysis/2011/end-year-military-spending-wrap-up/
Aug. 26, 2011 - ...military, NPP will create a clearer picture of the budgetary decisions that await the Committee.
Blog - /blog/2011/08/24/white-house-schedules-budget-call/
Aug. 24, 2011 - The White House Office of Public Engagement has scheduled a series of ten state calls (see list and specific invitation below). Note there are two calls today (Wednesday) for folks in California and C...
Analysis - /analysis/2011/whats-at-stake/
Aug. 22, 2011 - What's at Stake? offers 50 state-level briefs focused on the local impact of war spending.
Blog - /blog/2011/08/16/How-Safe-Are-You/
Aug. 16, 2011 - NOTE: This article originally appeared on TomDispatch.com.The killing of Osama Bin Laden did not put cuts in national security spending on the table, but the debt-ceiling debate finally did. And mild ...
Blog - /blog/2011/08/10/mainers-vote-their-priorities/
Aug. 10, 2011 - In the midst of Congressional debates about debt, budget cuts, and tax increases, a “penny poll” was held in every Maine county asking participants, “How would you like your federal tax dollars spent?...
Blog - /blog/2011/08/08/new-data-defense-department-personnel/
Aug. 8, 2011 - ...military, and reserve national guard personnel employed by the Department of Defense.
Blog - /blog/2011/08/04/new-data-defense-procurement-contracts/
Aug. 4, 2011 - We've added another federal expenditure to the Federal Priorities Database: Department of Defense Procurement Contracts: amount of procurement contracts awarded by the Department of Defense (by vendor...
Blog - /blog/2011/07/28/precarious-position-anti-poverty-programs/
July 28, 2011 - p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }a:link { } There are a deluge of budget proposals and compromises that Congress is trying to quickly wade through as the August 2nd date for default on our federal debt dra...
Analysis - /analysis/2011/military-recruitment-2010/
June 30, 2011 - ...military spending goes towards the recruitment, retention, wages and benefits for military personnel. Each year, National Priorities Project (NPP) reports on military recruitment in an effort to...
Analysis - /analysis/2011/afghan-war-costs-compared-state-budget-shortfalls/
June 27, 2011 - 41 states and the District of Columbia are projecting budget shortfalls for FY2012 totaling $102.9 billion. This amount could be wiped out entirely by the amount spent on the war in Afghanistan this y...
Blog - /blog/2011/06/24/field-notes-creating-change-washington/
June 24, 2011 - Earlier this week I went to Washington, D.C. for the international conference of RESULTS, a nonpartisan organization working to end hunger and poverty by empowering individuals to exercise their perso...
Blog - /blog/2011/06/22/mr-gates-please-bring-your-checkbook/
June 22, 2011 - That’s the message that U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates got from President Hamid Karzai when he visited Afghanistan in December 2009. At that time, President Karzai told Sec. Gates that the Afghan...
Blog - /blog/2011/06/20/order-form-more-perfect-union-nations-mayors-resolve-end-wars/
June 20, 2011 - Right now in Baltimore, top elected officials from cities across the country are meeting for the 79th time since the founding of the U.S. Conference of Mayors during the Great Depression. The group co...
Analysis - /analysis/2011/annual-costs-war-afghanistan/
June 7, 2011 - As part of its "Cost of War" analysis, NPP has calculated the total cost of the war in Afghanistan.
Blog - /blog/2011/05/31/us-security-spending-911/
May 31, 2011 - Last week NPP published "U.S. Security Spending Since 9/11," an analysis of total federal spending on defense and homeland security since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The key findings ...
Analysis - /analysis/2011/us-security-spending-since-911/
May 26, 2011 - The killing of Osama Bin Laden by U.S. special forces prompted a great many questions about the continued U.S. war in Afghanistan, and how much the United States has spent on “security” si...
Blog - /blog/2011/05/12/house-spending-levels-cut-everyoneexcept-defense/
May 12, 2011 - Yesterday the House Appropriations Committee released its 302(b) allocations for Fiscal Year 2012. These numbers reflect the amount of spending each appropriations subcommittee will have for the progr...
Analysis - /analysis/2011/presidents-budget-fy2012/defining-fy2012-budget-debate/
April 20, 2011 - House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s “Path for Prosperity” and the Congressional Progressive Caucus’s (CPC) “People’s Budget” are more than competing b...
Analysis - /analysis/2011/analysis-fiscal-year-2011-budget-agreement/
April 13, 2011 - Quite literally at the 11th hour on Friday, April 8, narrowly averting a government shutdown, Democratic and Republican congressional leaders and President Obama reached agreement on a spending bill t...
