Jo Comerford - William Paterson University News Release
The impact of national funding priorities on New Jersey's economy will be the topic of a talk by Jo Comerford, executive director of the National Priorities Project, on Tuesday, October 5, 2010 at William Paterson University in Wayne. Her address, "New Jersey Out of Balance: The Impact of Federal Spending ...
STEVE PFARRER - Daily Hampshire Gazette
Staff - MetroWest Daily News
FRAMINGHAM — A panel discussion and workshop Saturday will weigh the cost of our national military budget and local education."Saving Our Schools: Balancing Books and Bombs'' will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. at First Parish in Framingham, 24 Vernon St.Sponsored by MetroWest Peace Action, the discussion will focus ...
H. Patricia Hynes - Daily Hampshire Gazette
"... Budgets are moral documents," states Congresswoman Barbara Lee, but "they don't lend themselves to a moral reading." She adds that increases in military spending are made at the expense of federal investment in affordable housing, home care, childcare and education; yet, no budget documentation acknowledges this trade-off.
Maureen Aumand - Albany Times Union
Saturday, tens of thousands of citizens will converge on Washington for a historic march.
Maureen Turner - Valley Advocate
By the end of this month, the U.S. will have spent $1.05 trillion to fight the wars in Iraq ($747.3 billion) and Afghanistan ($299 billion), according to the Northampton-based National Priorities Project.It doesn't take a lot of imagination to come up with a long list of ways that money could ...
Carol Still - The Mount Holyoke News
By now we all know that the Conservative Party (read Republican) won big time in the United Kingdom's elections this past May, ending the Labour (read Democrat) Party's 13 years in power. We also know that the economy around the world is not doing so hot, and, given our knowledge ...
Scott Merzbach - Amherst Bulletin
A campaign to have money going toward war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan be returned for domestic priorities instead will be presented to fall Town Meeting.Town Meeting member Ruth Hooke this week said the "Bring the War Dollars Home" petition is part of a nationwide effort that recently met with ...
Shaun Polczer - Calgary Herald
Texas oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens said Wednesday that the United States' dependence on oil from the Middle East is indirectly funding the war in Afghanistan and leading to the deaths of American and Canadian soldiers while raising his nation's government debt. Speaking to a chamber of commerce audience in ...
SCOTT MERZBACH - Daily Hampshire Gazette
AMHERST - Town Meeting members will be asked to endorse a resolution aimed at pressuring national leaders to bring the money now being spent on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan back to local communities. Ruth Hooke, a Town Meeting member, said Tuesday that the "Bring the War Dollars Home" petition ...
