Category: Census

Military Spending/Keep Conrad Black Out/We Need Statistics

Rick Salutin points out that the U.S. military budget is now 43% of what the entire rest of the world spends on their total military spending.  Also, that in 1972, U.S. prisons held some 300,000 inmates. By 2008 there were 7.3 million Americans in jail, on probation or on parole. *     *     *     *     * [...]