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Chico News & Review
March 22, 2018
Just before the new year, Donald Trump said, in signing the annual military expenditures bill, “In recent years, our military has undergone a series of deep budget cuts that have severely impacted our readiness, shrunk our capabilities and placed substantial burdens on our warfighters. … Today, with theÃâà...
National Priorities Project
March 21, 2018
It means Americans spend $32 million per hour, according to a counter by the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. Put another way: Since 2001, every American taxpayer has spent almost $24,000 on the wars — equal to the average down payment on a house, a new Honda Accord,Ãâà...
The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
March 9, 2018
Exemplifying this quality, Clemente has been involved with not only Black Lives Matter, but also with associations such as “the National Priorities Project, The Brecht Forum and the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty,” according to the biography on her website. “You just don't join a movementÃâà...
War Is Boring
March 9, 2018
While domestic spending fared better in the recent congressional budget deal than it would have if Trump's draconian plan for 2018 had been enacted, it still lags far behind what Congress is investing in the Pentagon. And calculations by the National Priorities Project indicate that the Department of Defense is slated to beÃâà...
HuffPost
February 27, 2018
And calculations by the National Priorities Project indicate that the Department of Defense is slated to be an even bigger winner in Trump's 2019 budget blueprint. Its share of the discretionary budget, which includes virtually everything the government does other than programs like Medicare and SocialÃâà...
WTHR
February 22, 2018
In 2011, the National Priorities Project estimated the costs of these security upgrades for defense and homeland security at $7.6 trillion. The homeland security cost an estimated $636 billion, footed, of course, by U.S. taxpayers. As I wrote last week, in 2018 we are enduring a spate of school atrocities.
National Priorities Project (blog)
February 15, 2018
... equality through the lens of an anti-war movement so that the military can stop being a welfare program, and instead become what it is most commonly understood to be: the way we go to war. Maryanne is a student at Mount Holyoke College and a former Research Intern for National Priorities Project.
Fortune
February 12, 2018
... even in the cases where they do, we'll be the ones ultimately paying for their profits. So remember: If the president offers to take you out to dinner, don't accept unless you're ready to either go hungry or foot the bill. Lindsay Koshgarian directs the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies.
National Priorities Project (blog)
February 12, 2018
Out of twelve major federal spending categories, only the military and veteran's benefits would be spared from the Trump cuts. The military budget is in line with what Congress passed last week, and amounts to a roughly 10 percent increase in military spending. For more on the budget cuts andÃâà...
National Priorities Project (blog)
February 9, 2018
After a brief hours-long government shutdown in the middle of the night, the House and Senate both voted to pass a budget deal that sets military and nonmilitary spending levels for 2018 and 2019. The deal sets 2018 spending levels at $700 billion for the military - including an $80 billion budget increase,Ãâà...
Wortfm
February 9, 2018
Thursday host Allen Ruff speaks with Lindsay Koshgarian, research director at the National Priorities Project, about the federal budget. The National Priorities Project is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization that strives to make the federal budget accessible to the public. Ms. Koshgarian's primary focus atÃâà...
National Priorities Project (blog)
May 23, 2017
We knew some of what to expect in President Trump's first full budget proposal, based on his first budget blueprint and foreboding media stories. What we didn't know was the full extent of whom Trump's budget would seek to help, and at what cost. War on the Poor: Trump's budget declares war on thoseÃâà...
Youngstown Vindicator
December 31, 1999
It means Americans spend $32 million per hour, according to a counter by the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. Put another way: Since 2001, every American taxpayer has spent almost $24,000 on the wars – equal to the average down payment on a house, a new Honda Accord,Ãâà...
CNBC
December 31, 1999
... Assistance Program. "Social Security alone comprises more than a third of mandatory spending and around 23 percent of the total federal budget. Medicare makes up an additional 23 percent of mandatory spending and 15 percent of the total federal budget," reports the National Priorities Project.
Kokomo Perspective
December 31, 1999
In 2011, the National Priorities Project estimated the costs of these security upgrades for defense and homeland security at $7.6 trillion. The homeland security cost an estimated $636 billion, footed, of course, by U.S. taxpayers. As I wrote last week, in 2018 we are enduring a spate of school atrocities.
