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Sat Apr 1, 2017, 02:25 PM Apr 2017

86% of Trump counties make less in a year than 27 Trump staffers are worth





Financial reports released by the Trump administration indicate that 27 staffers who work for him are worth a combined $2.3 billion thanks to real estate, investments and hefty salaries.

How much is $2.3 billion? Here’s one way to look at it. Consider the amount of money earned in any county in the country in a year — the number of households in each county times the average household income in the county. In 80 percent of the counties in America, every household combined earns less than $2.3 billion a year. In counties that voted for Donald Trump, that figure is higher: In 86 percent of Trump counties, the total amount of income earned in a year is less than $2.3 billion. (On average, it’s $2.1 billion, using 2011 to 2015 five-year estimates from the Census Bureau.)

Only 8 percent of Trump-voting counties have a cumulative annual income greater than the $3.9 billion Forbes says the president himself is worth. Only 2 percent earn more annually than the $10 billion Trump claims to be worth...

Broadly, though, this bit of data reinforces the disconnect between the Trump team and the voters Trump likes to highlight. A lot of very wealthy people, most of whom come from those Clinton counties, work in the White House. A lot of other houses scattered across the country are relying on those millionaires to boost their own incomes.


read: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/04/01/86-percent-of-trump-counties-make-less-in-a-year-than-27-trump-staffers-are-worth/?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.c6671a2b4d44


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