We need more movements that are representing us. There is actually a poor people's campaign and we work closely with them. One of the things they work for is to cut military spending and put that spending into social programs that actually benefit people so that we don't have 140 million people in this country who are struggling just to get by while military contractors are taking in billions of dollars and using that to turn around massive profits for their shareholders and multi-million dollar salaries for their CEOs.

Lindsay Koshgarian and Ashik Siddique, co-authors of the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies report, “The Warfare State: How Funding for Militarism Compromises Our Welfare. You can check out there report here: www.nationalpriorities.org/analysis/20…ur-welfare/

Lindsay Koshgarian is Lindsay's work and commentary on the federal budget and military spending has appeared on NPR, the BBC, CNN, The Nation, U.S. News and World Report, and others. At NPP, her work is at the intersection of military and domestic federal spending.

Ashik Siddique is a research analyst for the National Priorities Project, working on analysis of the federal budget and military spending.

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Ashik Siddique

Ashik Siddique is a research analyst for the National Priorities Project, working on analysis of the federal budget and military spending. He is particularly interested in examining how militarized U.S. domestic and foreign policy interacts with efforts to address long-term societal threats like accelerating inequality and climate change.

Prior to joining NPP, Ashik was the research and digital communications lead and a founding member of The Climate Mobilization. Ashik graduated from Wesleyan University with a degree in Neuroscience & Behavior, and worked for several years as a research coordinator of a study on PTSD in combat veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan at the Bronx VA Medical Center.

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Lindsay Koshgarian

Lindsay's work and commentary on the federal budget and military spending has appeared on NPR, the BBC, CNN, The Nation, U.S. News and World Report, and others. At NPP, her work is at the intersection of military and domestic federal spending. She got her start as a clinic worker and organizer at Planned Parenthood in central and suburban Philadelphia, and led economic development and affordable housing studies at the University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute prior to joining NPP in 2014. She holds an MPP from UCLA and a B.A. in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania.

The Warfare State Compromises our Welfare / Lindsay Koshgarian & Ashik Siddique

Ashik Siddique

Lindsay Koshgarian