{"id":30288,"date":"2010-12-04T13:52:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T18:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=30288"},"modified":"2011-11-21T02:27:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T07:27:46","slug":"perceptions-of-u-s-spending-on-foreign-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/12\/04\/perceptions-of-u-s-spending-on-foreign-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Perceptions of U.S. Spending on Foreign Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nanopolitan.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Abi<\/a>, a professor of Materials Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, pointed out an interesting graph <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/ezra-klein\/2010\/12\/american_misperceptions_of_for.html\" target=\"_blank\">posted by Ezra Klein at the <em>Washington Post<\/em><\/a>. The graph, using data from a <a href=\"http:\/\/capitalgainsandgames.com\/blog\/bruce-bartlett\/2059\/why-fixing-budget-hopeless\" target=\"_blank\">survey of public opinion about the U.S. budget<\/a>, shows how much of the U.S. budget respondents believe goes to foreign aid, how much they <em>think<\/em> should go to foreign aid&#8230;and how much actually does:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/12\/budgetforeignaid.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30289 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/12\/budgetforeignaid-500x338.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/12\/budgetforeignaid-500x338.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/12\/budgetforeignaid.jpg 505w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The actual figure? 0.6% in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abi, a professor of Materials Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, pointed out an interesting graph posted by Ezra Klein at the Washington Post. The graph, using data from a survey of public opinion about the U.S. budget, shows how much of the U.S. budget respondents believe goes to foreign aid, how much they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,85,693],"class_list":["post-30288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-economics","tag-politics","tag-public-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42196,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30288\/revisions\/42196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}