War Spending Exceeds a Million Dollars Per Minute in the U.S., Equivalent to Funding Education for Thousands of Students

AP: The US spends about $1.3 million per minute on a war with Iran

AP columnist and analyst Nicholas Kristof wrote that just a few weeks of such spending would be enough to fund free higher education for students from families with annual incomes below $125,000, or to launch a national preschool program.

The cost of one hour of war amounts to about $75 million—money that could have been used to provide free books for children from poor families.

The scale of military spending is comparable to the expenditures on major domestic social programs.

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