The Democratic Party's Forty Percent Dilemma
Submitted by Steven D on Mon, 04/25/2016 - 12:52pmRobert Reich pointed to this particular statistic recently in his essay posted at Alternet, Don't Bank on All of Bernie's Supporters Making an Easy Switch to Hillary: Over forty percent (40%) of all political contributions in 2012 "came from the richest 0.01 percent of American households." Almost 42% (41.8% to be precise) actually.