Cenk Uygur
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ISIS Cuts Salaries In Half
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January 20, 2016
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Jan 20, 20166:29Now PlayingJust as Republican candidates are telling us how ISIS poses an existential threat to America, we find that their financial position is rapidly deteriorating. They just had to cut employee pay in half. Ana Kasparian and John Iadarola (ThinkTank), hosts of the The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"ISIS might seem like a ragtag group of terrorists, but in reality, it operates as a government over parts of Iraq and Syria. And it hands out biweekly paychecks to its jihadist army.
ISIS soldiers earn between $400 and $1,200 a month, plus a $50 stipend for their wives and $25 for each child, according to the Congressional Research Service.
But running a state at war is expensive. And recent victories for the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS mean that the Islamic State can't afford to pay its soldiers quite as much as it used to.”*
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