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Re:USAspending – How U.S. government money was spent in 2016 by codegeek on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @12:54PM (#14301678)
Education, Training, Employment and Social services: 2.7%

Defense: 14.9%

Anyone else see something wrong with this ?

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Re:USAspending – How U.S. government money was spent in 2016 by jacobn on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @02:02PM (#14302431)
Most educational spending is state/local. In 2012 they spent ~1/3 of ~$2.6T = $826B, which corresponds to 21.5% of the federal budget.

http://www.urban.org/policy-centers/cross-center-initiatives...

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Re:USAspending – How U.S. government money was spent in 2016 by belovedeagle on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @12:57PM (#14301721)
Yep, that first number is way too high since the federal government doesn't need to be involved with those things.
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