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$478 per person.
Look at it this way - if you gave each American $3 you would have to come up with nearly $1 billion (OK - $942 million for a population of 314 million people). This is based on the usual definition of a billion as a thousand millions used in the US - see 'Long and short scales' on Wikipedia.
A pet peeve of mine - too often people fail to grasp the per capita equivalent of the large numbers tossed around in Washington and the evening news.
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