Despite claims that military spending creates jobs, only a small portion of the money spent on the military is making it back to Michigan. New research by the National Priorities Project analyzing numbers from 2005 shows that Michigan is among the ten states receiving the least amount of money back for what it pays in taxes for the military. According to the National Priorities Project's numbers, only $0.39 on every dollar spent on the military comes back to Michigan in the form of military procurement contracts, salaries, wages, and grants. Moreover, approximately $391 billion is distributed each year by the federal government for the military across the fifty states, while substantially smaller amounts are allotted for Department of Education ($56.8 billion), Food and Nutrition ($50.6 billion), and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ($6.8 billion) programs. In Michigan, $1.67 billion is allotted to food and nutrition programs, $1.557 to education, and $223 million to EPA programs compared to a little over $5 billion allotted to military programs.