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> as Forbes' Erik Kain points out — that state and local governments generally foot the bill when it comes to education spending in America. If you factor those
by wcarss 6y ago
> as Forbes' Erik Kain points out — that state and local governments generally foot the bill when it comes to education spending in America. If you factor those contributions in, the US spent about $880 billion on education in 2011, compared to $966 billion total on defense.
Maybe 2011 was just a really bad year for education, but I think you could stand to add citations on what seems like a pretty eyebrow-raising claim, that each of these things blanket "get more money" than the military -- let alone a whole discussion of the spending per user capita on these things and the value they have to society.
Also, the James Web telescope, at $10BB, has been in development for 20+ years, so that's ~$1B/year or less in total expenditures, on a program that's the poster child for massive cost overruns and bungling. If it had been presented as $10B originally, especially as an instantaneous cost, it likely would never have happened.
1 - https://www.businessinsider.com/education-military-spending-comparison-2016-9 https://www.businessinsider.com/education-military-spending-...
- nickff 6y agoEducational spending has continued to increase since 2011: >"Expenditures of educational institutions were an esti-mated $1.3 trillion for the 2016–17 school year (table106.20 and figure 2). Elementary and secondary schools spent 57 percent of this total ($759 billion), and degree-granting postsecondary institutions spent the remaining 43percent ($583 billion)." https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2018/2018070.pdf https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2018/2018070.pdf Total US Military budget was 619.5BB for 2017. https://defense360.csis.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Analysis-of-the-FY-2017-Budget.pdf https://defense360.csis.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Analy... Educational spending was a little more than double military spending.