All You Need to Know about the Federal Budget and Military Spending
Below you will find links that can help you understand the federal budget process. Be sure to check out our most recent pieces on the federal budget and military spending.
To learn more about what you can do to shift the military spending debate, please visit the WAND Action Center. Use the button on the left to be re-routed to the WAND Action Center. And don't miss WAND's blog posts on the WAND Action Center too.
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 American Budget Pie
It's here! The famous American budget pie, now with an even more gigantic slice for the Pentagon: 56%! Check out our resources below about the President's Fiscal Year 2012 budget request. Please share this important information with your friends and family.
Download the full color Pie Guide
Download a Black & White version of the Pie Chart and Guide
Download a Powerpoint Presented by National Priorities Project and WAND on the Federal Budget |
 Finding New Ways to Create Jobs
The military industry stays in business because it creates millions of jobs. But other projects can do even better. It's time to reinvest our public monies.
Newly updated! University of Massachusetts Political Economy Research Institute Study: The U.S. Employment Effects of Military and Domestic Spending Priorities: 2011 Update
Read Military Spending: A Poor Job Creator by William Hartung
Read what kind of spending creates the most jobs
 Federal Budget Basics
The federal budget process can be as complicated as a soap opera! Drop in and see what's happening with the federal budget.
Use WAND's All Our Dollars guide to follow the federal budget process.
Another guide to Federal Budget Basics developed for the 2011 WAND/WiLL National Conference
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 You Fix The Budget!
Use the exercise created by the New York Times to try and solve the budget problems.
Get the budget puzzle here!
WAND POSTS ON MILITARY SPENDING
October 4, 2011
Cut Out Last-Century Defense Spending October 4, 2011 Women’s Action for New Directions (WAND) has been working for thirty years to redirect excessive military spending to unmet human and environmental needs. Now as Washington takes aim at deficit reduction, lawmakers are targeting vital programs that sustain America. What is not being scrutinized for spending [...]
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Was voting for the debt ceiling “deal” a necessary but bitter pill, or a “sugar coated Satan sandwich” as one lawmaker called it? Read a selection of statements from WAND/WiLL Women leaders in Congress, some of whom voted yes and some whom voted no, and see what you think. In the end, we agree with [...]
Read below for statements from WAND/WiLL women on the debt ceiling. SENATE Barbara Boxer (D-CA): “Today we acted to prevent a catastrophic default that would have hurt every American. But let’s be clear: This was a Republican-made crisis. “Never before in our nation’s history has one party held the full faith and credit of the [...]
July 8, 2011 Today the House completed consideration of the Fiscal Year 2012 Defense Appropriations Act, passing it by a vote of 336 to 87. The overall bill provides about $530 billion for the Department of Defense base budget- a $17 billion increase over this year. This does not include war spending or spending on [...]
WAND has joined with organizations nationwide to circulate an annual budget letter which calls on Congress to cut excessive military spending and support smart budget priorities. We invited organizations from across the country– community, religious, human needs, environmental, women’s organizations and others– to sign onto this letter to Congress. Read the FY2011 and FY2012letter here: [...]
Over 700 people from faith communities across the United States came to DC March 25-28 to participate in the 2011 Ecumenical Advocacy Days (EAD), including Arkansas WAND members JoAnne Mills and Susan Sims! Focusing on the EAD theme Development, Security and Economic Justice: What’s Gender Got to Do with It?, JoAnne and Susan met with [...]
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