President Obama and the Democratic National Committee flexed their fundraising muscle in the third quarter by raising a combined $70 million, according the disclosure reports. But a large amount of money, coming through so-called bundlers, leaves the original sources shrouded in mystery.
Amid a furor over its recent redesign, and with privacy concerns tailing its every move, Facebook has filed paperwork to start its own political action committee.
The American Independent has previously reported on declining American cities and rising income inequality since 1979. Now, the Atlantic Monthly combines income inequality data and county demographic data to present what it calls the “12 States of America.” Its findings demonstrate with one interactive map just how More…
At a time when many states are slicing services for people with disabilities across the nation, the federal government has come through with a welcome offering: $4.3 billion in grant money that will go to states implementing programs that transition Medicaid beneficiaries out of institutions and nursing homes and into More…
The lobbying industry enjoyed a record-breaking year in 2008, according to a report by the Center for Responsive Politics, a non-profit that tracks money in politics:
As the Wall Street bailout negotiations continue, the world is growing too accustomed, I fear, to the oft-mentioned $700 billion figure. As a reminder just how enormous a sum of cash that represents, consider the following:
If you stacked $100 bills atop each other, a $700 billion pile would rise More…
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