Congressmen's incomes triple while America gets poorer
If you feel like Congress fat cats can’t relate to their fellow Americans anymore, the truth behind the matter might just be that they can’t.
While Americans have seen a recession ravage savings accounts, lawmakers on Capitol Hill have only gotten richer.
Between the US Senate and House of Representatives, the median net worth for a member of Congress is around $913,000, reports The New York Times.... MORE
Source: RT.com
URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/wealth-congress-lawmakers-poor-759/
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ok ito ah. tatlong beses taas ng sahod ni kinatawan kahit na kalahati na ng kano ay mahirap.
"Between the US Senate and House of Representatives, the median net worth for a member of Congress is around $913,000, reports The New York Times. That man in the middle is Ed Pastor (Dem-AZ), and although he makes a pretty penny nowadays, his income today is gigantic when gauged with what he was worth when he first came to Washington. Twenty years earlier, Pastor pulled in enough to have only $100,000 saved up, a figure he has magnified nearly tenfold in the two decades since."
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