Army's Local Economic Effects. Appendix B, Volume 1: Alabama Through Minnesota.

摘要

Decreasing Army spending, soldiers, and government civilian positions will produce broad economic effects in the states and communities that experience these reductions, including the loss of additional jobs and output linked to Army procurement and personal spending by soldiers and government civilians whose positions are eliminated. To help inform decision-making in the event that the Army experiences these cuts, the U.S. Army Quadrennial Defense Review Office asked the RAND Arroyo Center to provide an empirical understanding of how Army spending affects communities and states to help Army leaders more accurately inform Congress on the distribution of Army personnel and procurement spending and the ripple effects, or “backward linkages,” that it supports. This report presents findings from RAND Arroyo Center research on the economic activity supported by Army spending at the local level across the nation. This report covers the states alphabetically of Alabama through Minnesota.