Philip BumpInstead of blowing up things in Iran, the federal government could have spent $11 billion in a week paying the entire household incomes for everyone in these counties. https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-iran-war-11-billion-income-housing
OmnivoreAn image of the US with about half the counties in green. These appear to be low population counties.
$11 billion would cover a week's income for every household in
these 1,586 counties.
The calculation: five-year estimates of mean household income times the number of households and divided by 52.