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Budget, Values, and Militarism: Aligning our Budgets with our Priorities Mass Peace Action MIT, Cambridge, MA November 8, 2014 Douglas Hall, Ph.D. Executive Director, National Priorities Project www.nationalpriorites.org
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National Priorities Project Non-profit, non-partisan federal budget research org People’s Guide to the Federal Budget Federal Budget 101 & Local Data http://nationalpriorities.org http://nationalpriorities.org www.nationalpriorites.org
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Where did your 2013 federal income tax dollars go?
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$1.75 trillion since 2001
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www.nationalpriorites.org
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Connecting the dots… www.nationalpriorites.org
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The Meter is Running www.nationalpriorites.org As of October 7, 2014
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…And Running… www.nationalpriorites.org
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Cost of [REAL] National Security www.nationalpriorites.org
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“Mission Creep” => “Budget Creep” www.nationalpriorites.org
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Data & Tools www.nationalpriorites.org
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Trade-Offs www.nationalpriorites.org Kansas City: $88 million for Homeland Security in FY 2014 That’s 10 years of VA care for 500 vets and 500 Head Start slots for 10 years
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THANK-YOU! dhall@nationalpriorities.org On Twitter: @halldjh www.nationalpriorites.org
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