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Arbitrarily citing https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/policy-basics-w...

The bulk of social services spending is social security and medicare, which _each_ account for somewhere between 20-30% of federal spending. Military spending is closer to 15-20% of the federal budget

Re:California Covid-19 risk screening and testing on Monday March 16, 2020 @12:12AM (#22589865)
For some reason, the text under https://www.projectbaseline.com/faq/ is different than that on the COVID-19 page. The FAQ page does explicitly mention HIPAA compliance
Re:California Covid-19 risk screening and testing on Monday March 16, 2020 @12:11AM (#22589859)
Note that this text only appears under "How will you protect my privacy" _under the FAQ page_. If you look at the question with the same title on the landing page, HIPAA is not mentioned
Re:The myth of revealed preference for suburbs on Friday June 22, 2018 @03:20PM (#17376603)
For those interested in the topic, I'd also highly recommend Richard Rothstein's "The Color of Law." Rothstein discusses there how explicitly racist zoning policies contributed to the segregation of suburbs. I found it to be a fascinating read.