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Total Outlays: $2,847 billion
Military: 48% : $1,372 billion
Non-Military: 52% : $1,475 b
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The US Employment Effects of Military and Domestic Spending
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Investing in clean energy, health care and education create a much larger number of jobs across all pay ranges than investing the same amount in the military
From the Political Economy Research Institute,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst - Dec 2011
Complete study available:
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See also interview with Robert Pollin, author of the PERI study: Military Spending: Bang for Buck?
Moving from a War Economy to a Peace Economy
by Mary Beth Sullivan
How to improve the lives of the 99%
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World military expenditure in 2009 is estimated as
over
$1.62 trillion dollars ...
... a 1.3% increase since 2009 and a 50% increase since 2001...
... around $236 for every person in the world ...
... the USA now accounts for 43% of world total