Much to nobody's surprise, a new study from MIT contradicts right-wing talking points and finds that funding domestic priorities like clean energy, health care, and education creates twice as many jobs per dollar spent as military spending. Pithy economist Dean Baker has more. "In other words, if the point of spending is to create jobs, then the military is the last place that we would want to put our dollars."
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