Food Insecurity data is from the U.S. Department of Agriculture
Information on Homelessness is from the Department of Housing and Urban Development
At the state level:
State-level funding data for the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), Head Start, and Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) programs come from the Consolidated Federal Funds Report (CFFR).
Pentagon trade-offs
State and community funding shares of the Pentagon budget are from NPP based on the Office of Management and Budget’s FY2013 request. The trade-offs were drawn NPP’s “Trade-offs” database.
Higher education v. Pentagon spending
Higher Education Data
The information for each state university was obtained through each university's individual website.
At the national level:
Top Pentagon talking points
Job Creation
Some suggest that increased and consistently high military spending leads to job creation, both direct and indirect. The Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst finds that investing $1 billion in education, healthcare, clean energy, or tax cuts would generate more jobs than investing the same $1 billion in military-related industries.
Job Creation Data
The data is based on “The U.S. Employment Effects of Military and Domestic Spending Priorities: 2011 Update,” by Robert Pollin and Heidi Garrett-Peltier.
U.S. Military Spending Data
U.S. military spending and discretionary funding data is derived from materials from the Office of Management and Budget’s “Budget of the U.S. Government for Fiscal Year 2013.”
At the International Level: Global Military Spending Data
The figures for world military spending come from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute's Military Expenditure Database.
Non-defense discretionary programs affected by sequestration:
Weapons acquisition costs come from the Defense Department's "National Defense Budget Estimates for FY 2013."
What an annual Pentagon cut of $50 billion or $100 billion could buy:
FY2013 funding levels for Title I, 21st Century Community Learning Centers, Special Ed Grants to States and the TRiO program come from the Department of Education's FY2013 budget materials.
