Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/04/08/we-cant-rely-on-just-the-military/
April 8, 2020 - ...us, but that’s unlikely.
Analysis - /analysis/2020/tax-day-2020/
March 18, 2020 - Tax Day is delayed several months this year to July 15, 2020, due to the pandemic. Want to know what your taxes pay for, and how much?
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/03/05/save-lives-shift-pentagon-spending-public-health/
March 5, 2020 - ...us (COVID-19) underscores this fact.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/03/03/reallocate-defense-spending-fund-needs-at-home/
March 3, 2020 - ...usly taken on many pressing issues impacting South Carolinians, there’s another thing I encourage them to address: an excessive Pentagon budget that prioritizes weapons over the needs of those w...
Analysis - /analysis/2020/three-big-ideas-reducing-military-spending/
March 2, 2020 - The time has come for an end to the United States ill-conceived wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the moment is ripe for a new peace dividend. Today’s threats are mostly non-military in nature: ...
Analysis - /analysis/2020/fact-sheet-what-buy-instead-border-wall-updated/
March 2, 2020 - ...usly posted fact sheet. CONGRESS: Moms Want You to Make Good Choices For Our Families! Despite the fact that Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs & Border Protection (CBP) sep...
Analysis - /analysis/2020/fact-sheet-militarism-united-states/
March 2, 2020 - ...ust change.
Analysis - /analysis/2020/president-trumps-2021-budget-prioritizes-pentagon/
Feb. 10, 2020 - ...ust four agencies rate spending increases in the Trump 2021 budget: the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Treasury Department. Fro...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2020/01/10/as-we-work-t-prevent-iran-war-time-to-end-all-wars/
Jan. 10, 2020 - ...ust recognize it is past time to end the endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. As the budget process for 2021 gets under way, Congress needs to take the next step: it’s time to use must-p...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/12/15/hartung-lessons-battling-pentagon-four-decades/
Dec. 15, 2019 - As even Donald Trump has acknowledged, those trillions could have gone far in repairing America’s infrastructure and doing so much else in this country. In truth, as Lindsay Koshgarian of t...
Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/12/13/letter-to-editor-news-not-fit-to-print/
Dec. 13, 2019 - ...spending.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/10/21/warren-pay-medicare-for-all/
Oct. 21, 2019 - The top-tier Democrat — whose motto is that she has a plan for everything — doesn’t have one yet for how to pay for universal health care.
Blog - /blog/2019/07/18/us-spends-more-its-military-176-countries-combined/
July 18, 2019 - $121.1 billion. That’s how much more money the United States spends on its military than 144 other countries combined.
Blog - /blog/2019/06/28/750-billion-ndaa-steamrolls-ahead/
June 27, 2019 - ...spending is shaping up to be sky-high—the Senate's NDAA bill just approved the President's topline Pentagon budget of $750 billion for Fiscal Year 2020.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/06/18/2020-plans-fight-poverty-presidential-forum/
June 18, 2019 - ...defense spending and an end to tax breaks for the rich, arguing that this money would be better put to use restoring the social safety net, improving wages, and providing services to the poor.
Analysis - /analysis/2019/poor-peoples-moral-budget/poor-peoples-moral-budget-key-findings/
June 17, 2019 - Key findings from the Poor People's Moral Budget report.
Analysis - /analysis/2019/poor-peoples-moral-budget/
June 17, 2019 - In the seven sections of the Moral Budget, we look at policies and investments for seven critical areas of the Poor People’s Moral Agenda.
Article - /pressroom/articles/2019/05/15/2020-military-budget-progressive-medicare-for-all/
May 15, 2019 - ...use Progressives tried to tie funding for bold social programs to the military budget, dollar for dollar. That’s timid and wrongheaded."
Analysis - /analysis/2019/tax-day-2019/tax-day-2019-notes-and-sources/
April 11, 2019 - Tax Day shows how your individual income taxes were spent. Those are a portion of the taxes withheld from your paycheck, and due this year on April 15.
Analysis - /analysis/2019/tax-day-2019/where-your-tax-dollar-was-spent-2018/
April 11, 2019 - ...used every dollar you paid.
