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WHAT? Democracy. WHO? Decides.
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Evidence & Facts
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Businesses use huge financial resources to counter public polices…
BENCHMARKING & BEST PRACTICES
The top four U.S. manufacturing Firms control 43 percent of US sales…
PROFIT MARGINS - U.S. VS EU
U.S. companies have used their growing market power for profit to raise prices....
ENGAGE TO CHANGE “OUR STATUS QUO”
Demand that unbiased, academic experts are consulted as resources...
LOBBYING EXPENDITURES - U.S. VS EU
Total amount of money spent on lobbying in Europe is half that of the U.S.…
Trojan Horses
ROLE OF FRONT GROUPS
Top 5 Front Groups and their Funding Sources…
ROLE OF THINK TANKS
Top 5 Think Tanks and their Funding
Sources…
ROLE OF PR FIRMS
Top 5 PR Firms and their Funding
Sources…
ROLE OF LOBBYING FIRMS
Top 5 Lobbying Firms and their Funding Sources…
5 KEY OPERATIVES MANIPULATE OUR PUBLIC POLICES
Front Groups, Think Tanks, Public Relations Firms, Lobbyists and Media...
Big Money $$ Influence
ROLE OF MEDIA
6 Corporations control 90% of the media in U.S.…
CEO SALARIES & REVENUES OF TOP 6 MEDIA GIANTS
It would take about 410 years for a typical employee at Disney, AT&T, Comcast, or ViacomCBS...
PUBLIC BROADCASTING - PBS & NPR
Even trusted public organizations like PBS & NPR look to Think Tanks...
PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE ( PBS) - FUNDING SOURCES
NewsHour derives its revenue from a variety of sources including “nonpublic” streams such as corporations...
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO (NPR) - FUNDING SOURCES
A large portion of revenue comes from member stations & underwriting corporate...
Wealth Inequality
GENDER WEALTH INEQUALITY IN U.S.
Women represent only 5 percent of CEO's at Fortune 500 firms...
INCOME INEQUALITY IN U.S
Top 0.1 percent are taking in over 196 times the income of the bottom 90 percent...
RACIAL WEALTH INEQUALITY - IN U.S
The median White family has 41 times more wealth than the median Black family…
WEALTH INEQUALITY - IN U.S
Amazon Jeff Bezos, Microsoft Bill Gates, and investor Warren Buffett held combined fortunes…
INCOME & WEALTH INEQUALITY IN U.S.
In the United States, the income gap between the rich and everyone else has been growing markedly, for more than 30 years...
