Anti-Poverty, Non-Profit Groups Receive Huge Government Subsidies, Pay Obscene CEO Salaries

‘The Daily Caller investigated 14 anti-poverty, non-profit groups that received $900 million in taxpayer funds from federal, state and local government from 2013 through 2015. They paid annual salaries as high as $900,000, and spent millions on lobbying. These groups include the National Urban League, La Raza, Operation HOPE , NeighborWorks, the National Council On Aging, Unidos, Rural Community Assistance Corporation, and the Housing Partnership Network. –GEG
Top officials with 14 anti-poverty nonprofits were paid as much as $869,900 as their organizations were enriched with $900 million of taxpayer money, The Daily Caller News Foundation’s (TheDCNF) Investigative Group has found.
The activist groups received as much as 85 percent of their revenue from federal, state and local governments and collectively spent millions on lobbying, TheDCNF’s analysis found. Also, half of the charities’ CEOs made political contributions – nearly all of which was to Democratic candidates.’
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