[Peace-discuss] could there be an estimate of Pentagon spending by census tract?

[David Green]

Item in today's News-Gazette:

BUSINESS UPDATE

Lockheed Martin set for $142M expansion

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Lockheed Martin said Monday that it will spend
$142 million and hire 326 new workers over the next few years as it expands
its southern Arkansas facility.

The Maryland-based company announced the expansion of its plant in Camden,
about 85 miles southwest of Little Rock. The facility currently employs
about 700 workers.

Company officials told reporters on a conference call that the expansion
will be completed by 2024.

The expansion will support new construction and improve existing facilities
for products such as the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, the Army
Tactical Missile System and others, plus new machinery and equipment.

On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 3:18 PM Robert Naiman via Peace-discuss <
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

>
> Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has a tool where you can look up the life
> expectancy for your census tract.
>
>
> https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/interactives/whereyouliveaffectshowlongyoulive.html
>
> The point being to illustrate how life expectancy is correlated with
> census tract which is correlated with income which is highly skewed.
>
> Could we do this exercise for Pentagon spending? In the UMass paper they
> mapped Pentagon spending to occupational codes which they matched to income
> distribution. Could a similar technique map Pentagon spending to census
> tracts?
>
> The idea would be to show that Pentagon spending by census tract is
> positively correlated with life expectancy by census tract. But that would
> not show that Pentagon spending is a good thing. It would show that
> Pentagon spending is a form of disinvestment away from the communities with
> lower life expectancy, a transfer away from them to communities with higher
> life expectancy.
>
> So then you could say to people: go do the RWJ thing. If the life
> expectancy in your neighborhood is lower than that of the high Pentagon
> spending impact neighborhoods, you're getting ripped off by Pentagon
> spending, and there is no prospect that your neighborhood's share of that
> military pie is going to increase. So long as that piece of pie you don't
> have is part of the military pie, you're not seeing that pie. Your only
> chance to get that piece of pie is if it's transferred to the domestic pie.
>
> ===
>
> Robert Reuel Naiman
> Policy Director
> Just Foreign Policy
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> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
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>
>
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