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Total Outlays: $2,650 billion
Military: 54% : $1,449 billion
Non-Military: 46% : $1,210 b
(Click table for better view)
Investing in health, education, mass transit, or home weatherization and infrastructure creates more jobs than investing the same amount in the military (or in tax breaks)
More information from Miriam Pemberton at IPS (Miriam@ips-dc.org), or Marie Rietmann of WAND (Rietmann@wand.org).
Complete study:
Here
World military expenditure in 2009 is estimated as
$1.531 trillion dollars ...
... a 6% increase since 2008 and a 49% increase since 2000 ...
... around $225 for every person in the world ...
... the USA now accounts for 46.5% of world total