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An $850 Billion Challenge
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$237 billion
$36.4 billion in the 1960s
OTHER EXPENDITURES
$256 billion: Savings and loan crisis
$153 billion in the 1980s
$217 billion: Louisiana Purchase
$15 million in 1803
$115.3 billion: Marshall Plan
$12.7 billion in 1940s
$100 billion: Work Projects Administration
$7 billion in 1939
SOURCES: Bianco Research and staff reports ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOS; GRAPHIC BY MICHAEL D. SHEAR, LARIS KARKLIS AND JON WILE -- THE WASHINGTON POST
