Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/11/29/Pentagon-Just-Cant-Pass-an-Audit/
Nov. 29, 2023 - Conservative lawmakers calling for cuts should start with the agency that can’t account for $1.9 trillion — not the programs Americans rely on.
Analysis - /analysis/2023/fact-sheet-invest-communities-not-violence/
Nov. 9, 2023 - ...budget that prioritizes war, deportations and detentions, and policing at the expense of human needs. It’s time to reinvest these taxpayer dollars into real human needs — healthcare, educa...
Analysis - /analysis/2023/npp-ips-joins-calls-ceasefire-israel-and-occupied-palestine/
Oct. 19, 2023 - “A ceasefire is the only way to stop innocent suffering,” said Lindsay Koshgarian, Program Director of the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/06/13/debt-ceiling-reinforced-double-standard-military/
June 13, 2023 - There’s no price too high for the Pentagon, even while Washington claims the wealthiest country in the world apparently can’t afford to make sure all of its people have basic access to foo...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/06/06/surprise-congress-hide-defense-spending-ukraine/
June 6, 2023 - ...budget by adding billions for the military in ‘emergency’ legislation.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/06/03/progressive-say-submitting-gop-ransom-debt-celing/
June 3, 2023 - "Here's the news media's takeaway on the debt ceiling deal: Yay! Bipartisanship works! Here's the reality: GOP radicals held the economy hostage, Democrats paid the ransom, and bipartisanship is badly...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/06/02/warfare-state-compromises-ourwelfare/
June 2, 2023 - Lindsay Koshgarian and Ashik Siddique, co-authors of the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies report, “The Warfare State: How Funding for Militarism Compromises Our We...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/06/02/lockheed-ceo-hails-pentagon-budget-boost-debt-deal/
June 2, 2023 - The head of the major U.S. military contractor said the Pentagon top-line in the debt ceiling deal is "as good an outcome as our industry or our company could ask for at this point."
Analysis - /analysis/2023/warfare-state-how-funding-militarism-compromises-our-welfare/
May 24, 2023 - ...federal discretionary budget goes to militarized federal programs, leaving just over a third for our communities — a sliver some lawmakers want to cut even further.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/05/24/report-trillion-militarized-spending-crushing/
May 24, 2023 - "We keep hearing that our government can't afford nice things—or necessary things—for everyone," said the paper's co-author. "Yet militarized spending in the U.S. has almost doubled over t...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/05/08/unwarranted-influence-twenty-first-century-style/
May 8, 2023 - The MIC is consuming many more tax dollars and feeding far larger weapons producers than when President Eisenhower first raised the alarm about the “unwarranted influence” it wielded in 19...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/04/26/military-policing-say-no-federal-budget-violence/
April 26, 2023 - ...budget would increase sky-high military spending and expand the police — and Republican proposals are worse.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/04/19/ordinary-americans-subsidize-military-industrial/
April 19, 2023 - This year, the average American paid $1,087 in taxes just for Pentagon contractors alone. Imagine the kind of society we could construct with just a fraction of the resources we devote to war.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/04/18/where-does-my-tax-money-go-calculator-what-happens/
April 18, 2023 - Maybe you can’t get out of paying the Internal Revenue Service, but a little transparency never hurts.
Analysis - /analysis/2023/tax-day-2023/tax-day-2023-notes-and-sources/
April 17, 2023 - ...federal spending at the time of publishing. In some cases, we use additional federal government data sources. Tax Day Categories When OMB publishes federal budget data, it uses several categories of...
Analysis - /analysis/2023/tax-day-2023/
April 17, 2023 - Tax Day this year is April 18, 2023. Americans will file their tax returns for all income received in 2022. Want to know what your taxes pay for, and who pays what?
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/04/17/tax-day-pentagon-contractor-day/
April 17, 2023 - NPP just released their Tax Day 2023 receipt, which found that the average taxpayer paid $1,087 for Pentagon contractors in 2022. The average taxpayer paid $70 for deportations and bord...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/04/17/average-taxpayer-spent-pentagon-contractors-2022/
April 17, 2023 - "The main message? Our government is continuing to invest too much in the military, and in militarized law enforcement, and not nearly enough on prevention, people, and our communities."
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/02/02/cut-spendings-republicans-liberals-have-some-ideas/
Feb. 2, 2023 - ...budget-cutting — not under the extortionist threat of default, but just because it might be worthwhile — what federal spending do liberals think we could do without?
Article - /pressroom/articles/2023/01/26/research-details-promise-converting-war-economy/
Jan. 26, 2023 - "Military industrial production can be redirected to civilian technologies that contribute to societal well-being and provide green jobs," says the Costs of War project.
