The Political One Percent of the One Percent<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis piece was prepared in collaboration with Ethan Phelps-Goodman. If you think wealth is concentrated in the United States, just wait till you look at the data on campaign spending. In the 2010 elec…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The 0.01% of the population who … … contributed a quarter of all the money spent in the 2010 elections. … contributed to the 2010 elections on average more than the average American citizen makes in an entire year.… contribute 80% of the money raised by the political parties.… are becoming increasingly important to all … Continue reading “The One Percent of the One Percent”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,81,99],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-25704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2010","category-elections-2012","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26063,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/04\/the-money-game-for-the-2012-elections.html","url_meta":{"origin":25704,"position":0},"title":"The Money Game for the 2012 Elections","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 4-Feb-12 9:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting comparison, in a number of ways, between Obama and Romney's money-raising to date -- total numbers, timing, sources, all of it. 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