People's War Ledger
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LIVE TRACKING
US-ISRAEL WAR ON IRAN — STARTED FEB 28, 2026 /// EVERY SECOND COSTS LIVES, JOBS, AND FUTURES /// GAS PRICES HIT ORDINARY FAMILIES FIRST /// WHO AUTHORIZED THIS WAR? WHO PROFITS? /// DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY — DEMAND AN END /// US-ISRAEL WAR ON IRAN — STARTED FEB 28, 2026 /// EVERY SECOND COSTS LIVES, JOBS, AND FUTURES /// GAS PRICES HIT ORDINARY FAMILIES FIRST /// WHO AUTHORIZED THIS WAR? WHO PROFITS? /// DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY — DEMAND AN END ///
Real-Time Cost Accounting

The War Nobody Voted For

What it's taking from you, in real time.

War Start: February 28, 2026 — Day One
War Clock
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National Avg Gas Price
$3.18
▲ +$0.42 since war began
National average, regular unleaded.
Pre-war baseline: ~$2.98/gal (Feb 28, 2026)
Source: U.S. EIA Weekly Retail Survey · Updated Mondays
Civilian Economic KIA Real jobs. Real people. The cost nobody's counting on the news.
~16,700
Jobs Gone Every Month This War Runs
That's 16,700 people every month who won't get hired at a school, a clinic, or a construction site — because that money went to bombs instead. Every month. Like clockwork.
$1M → Hospitals = 14 jobs
$1M → Schools = 13 jobs
$1M → Clean Energy = 12 jobs
$1M → War = 5 jobs
What Your Tax Dollar Actually Buys
For every million dollars spent on this war, America gets 5 jobs. Spend it on a hospital — 14. A school — 13. Clean energy — 12. War is the worst job investment your tax dollar can make.
These aren't projections. This is what economists at Brown University have documented across two decades of U.S. war spending — the jobs, the clinics, the schools that never got built because the money went somewhere else.
→ Source: Brown University Costs of War Project
Estimated War Spending Since Feb 28, 2026
$0
Est. $891M/day based on National Priorities Project analysis of Pentagon data.
Source: CNN Politics · National Priorities Project / Institute for Policy Studies · March 2026
Instead, That Money Could Have Paid For
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Why This Matters

Wars don't just kill soldiers. They kill economies. The US-Israel military campaign against Iran began February 28, 2026 — without a declaration of war, without a public mandate, and without a plan for what comes after. What followed was immediate: oil markets spiked, regional supply chains fractured, and the ordinary costs of American life went up — fast. Gas prices are the most visible symptom. Job losses and business failures are the body count that doesn't make the nightly news.

Who Pays?

Not the contractors. Not the defense stocks. Not the policy architects who won't send their own children. The tab falls on working people — at the pump, at the register, in the unemployment line. This tracker exists to make the invisible cost visible. Every number here represents a real person whose economic life was disrupted by a war they didn't ask for and a government that didn't ask them. Keep watching. Keep sharing. Demand accountability.

Data sourced from: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) · Brown University Costs of War Project (Peltier, 2019 & 2025) · National Priorities Project.
Economic KIA figures reflect documented opportunity costs of war spending per peer-reviewed research — not projections.
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