By
Samantha Garcia
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Climate Change,
Education,
Health Care,
Military & Security
While climate change fuels migration, the United States hardens its southern border instead of investing in real sources of safety for people in this country and around the world.
By
Lorah Steichen
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Climate Change
A new study finds that the United States experienced 20 separate billion-dollar climate and weather disasters in 2021. The damages from these 20 costly disasters totaled $145 billion.
By
Ashik Siddique
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Military & Security,
Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net
Over 50 years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr., said of the United States in his crucial “Beyond Vietnam” speech that: “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” If we take King’s words seriously...
By
Lindsay Koshgarian
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Military & Security
What if you wanted less child poverty, better health care, more help with child care and elder care, and at least a gesture toward a solution to the climate crisis? And what if instead you got a $778 billion check for war profiteering?
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Guest Blogger
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Budget Process
Polls say Americans should love the Build Back Better Act — but most are only hearing talking points about its price tag.
By
Lindsay Koshgarian
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Budget Process,
Military & Security,
Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net
By
Guest Blogger
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Budget Process,
Social Insurance, Earned Benefits, & Safety Net
Why is it controversial to spend on social programs but not the Pentagon? Or to subsidize the poor but not the rich?
By
Lindsay Koshgarian
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Military & Security
Today the Congressional Budget Office released a new report, “Illustrative Options for National Defense Under a Smaller Defense Budget,” that outlines three different options for cutting funding for the Department of Defense by $1 trillion, or 14 percent, over the next ten years.
By
Josue De Luna Navarro
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Military & Security
Migrants are hit long before they migrate, before they reach the border, and often long after they cross it.
By
Lindsay Koshgarian
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Military & Security
This week the House of Representatives is voting on the National Defense Authorization Act, the piece of legislation that sets the nation's military policy, and military budget. And, based on actions taken so far by the House Armed Services Committee, the House is positioned to approve nearly $780 billion in military spending.
That's unless an effort to pass an amendment co-sponsored by Representative Barbara Lee and Representative Mark Pocan to cut the Pentagon budget by ten percent passes.