Cost of War - National Priorities Project

"In April, 2003 an intergenerational team of Niko Matsakis of Boston, MA and Elias Vlanton of Takoma Park, MD created costofwar.com. After maintaining it on their own for the first year, they gave it to the National Priorities Project to contribute to their ongoing educational efforts."

On this page you'll find a running counter of the cost of war with Iraq. You can also compare that cost to that of other programs where the money could've been better spent, such as.........

PRE-SCHOOL
KIDS' HEALTH
PUBLIC EDUCATION
COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS
PUBLIC HOUSING
WORLD HUNGER
AIDS EPIDEMIC
WORLD IMMUNIZATION

This site gives the HTML code of a counter you can paste into your own webpages. I added it to my side-bar so you can see how much we're spending at any given moment during your visit.