Better Ways to Spend $1 Trillion Than on Nuclear Weapons
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OurFuture.org
Jasmine Tucker
09/30/2014
What would happen if, instead of building our nuclear arsenal, we invested those dollars on domestic initiatives like clean energy, infrastructure improvements, education, or health care? For $1 trillion, here are a few alternative things we could do for future generations:
- Invest in the education sector, which could create 26.7 million jobs;
- Double our nation’s nutrition assistance budget over the next five years;
- Power every household in the nation with wind energy for the next nine years;
- Double current Head Start enrollment for the next 55 years; or
- Provide every American currently living below the poverty line with free health care for the next seven years.
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