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recalling a commentary on spending for education vs. incarceration which i wrote for Making Contact, i put together this little index (see comments for sources):

• current total u.s. government military expenditures, in dollars: 776,000,000,000
• years’ worth of drug treatment, for all u.s. residents who need it, which this amount would cover: 45.1
• number of extra K-12 students, beyond those already enrolled, for which this amount would pay all expenditures: 62,407,002
• dollars for repair of public housing recently cut from federal budget: 417,000,000
• dollars for job training and employment programs recently cut from federal budget: 700,000,000
• number of u.s. residents whose households regulary do not have enough food to eat: 8,500,000
• last year during which san francisco kept accurate records of the number of homeless people who died on the streets: 2000
• number of homeless people who died on SF streets that year: 169
• percentage of requests for emergency shelter that went unmet in 2001 due to lack of resources (bedspace): 37
• number of Food Not Bombs chapters sharing vegetarian food with hungry people and protesting war and poverty throughout the Americas, Europe and Australia: 175
• hours eli just spent trying, unsuccessfully, to track down reliable numbers for protests against “desert shield/desert storm” 1990-91 (UG!): 2
  [note: i think i have good info on that on paper somewhere, will update later, but if you have it, please post in comments.]