April 18, 2019
The New York Times told its readers that the government plans to spend $37.2 million (“nearly $40 million” in first sentence) on two new tent cities for migrants coming over the border and applying for asylum. Most readers probably have no idea how much money this is to the federal government. If the paper was actually trying to provide information, it would have told readers that this is equal to approximately 0.0008 percent of spending this year.
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