The U.S. foreign aid budget, visualized

The word "billion" has a certain ring to it. It sounds like, and is, a lot — in any context. We don't normally think of numbers higher than a billion. So when the United States inked a memorandum of understanding with Israel this month, promising $38 billion in military aid over a 10-year period, it set off alarm […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/09/26/the-u-s-foreign-aid-budget-visualized/