NASA’s whole 2026 budget was 24 billion dollars, a new poverty-economics study puts the real price of ending extreme poverty at up to 318 billion dollars a year, and the math behind ‘fund poverty instead of space’ turns out to run the wrong direction
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A popular argument for cutting space spending reveals a hard truth: the money gap for ending global poverty is orders of magnitude larger than most people realize. The post NASA’s whole 2026 budget was 24 billion dollars, a new poverty-economics study puts the real price of ending extreme poverty at up to 318 billion dollars a year, and the math behind ‘fund poverty instead of space’ turns out to run the wrong direction appeared first on Space Daily .
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