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The President's War Request: Local Costs Updated

As Congress considers additional war funding, NPP offers a state-level table and breakdowns of the President's proposed Iraq war spending by congressional district, county and city.

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Table 1: Educational Attainment of Army Recruits by State, 2005-2007

The table below shows the percentage of each state's active-duty Army recruits in fiscal years 2005, 2006 and 2007 that held a regular high school diploma or above, otherwise known as 'tier 1' by the

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Military Recruiting 2007: Army Misses Benchmarks by Greater Margin

In spite of efforts by the Pentagon to aggressively recruit youth into the Army, the Army missed its benchmarks once again in 2007. NPP releases its analysis of 2007 recruiting and provides access to data by state, county and ZIP Code.

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Table 4: Top 100 Counties Ranked by Number of Army Recruits, 2007

The table below shows the top 100 counties in the U.S. ranked according to the number of active-duty Army recruits in fiscal year 2007.

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Graph: Army Recruits by Neighborhood Income, 2004 and 2007

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Table 3: 'High Quality' Army Recruits, 2007

The following table shows the percentage of non-prior service active-duty Army recruits who are defined as 'high quality.' The Department of Defense (DoD) defines 'high quality' as those recruits who

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Table 5: Top 100 Counties Ranked by Army Recruits per 1000 Youth, 2007

The table below shows the top 100 counties in the U.S. ranked according to active-duty Army recruitment rates (recruits per 1000 youth).

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Table 6: Army Recruits, Total and per 1000 Youth by State, 2006-2007

The table below shows the total number of active-duty Army recruits,
and the recruitment rate (number of recruits per 1000 youth), for fiscal year
2006 and 2007 for each state. States are ranked according to recruits
per 1000 youth.

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