Here are 120 million Monopoly pieces, roughly one for every household in the United States. Just 158 families have provided nearly half of the early money for efforts to capture the White House.
The one hundred and fifty-eight families funding the 2016 presidential election
Required weekend reading: “Just 158 families, along with companies they own or control, contributed $176 million in the first phase of the campaign, a New York Times investigation found. Not since before Watergate have so few people and businesses provided so much early money in a campaign, most of it through channels legalized by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision five years ago.”
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