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| Permalink View Article Stats (1 comment) Promoted to Headline (H3) on 2/5/12: I Will Not Be Pinkwashed: Komen's Race Is For Money, Not Cure Quicklink submitted by Amanda Lang (Add your own quicklinks easily with the OpEdNews Quick Link Browser bookmark) |
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| Outrageous salaries, drug company ties, and less than a dime of every dollar looks for a cure. Susan G. Komen for the Cure is a multimillion-dollar company with assets totaling over $390 million. Only 20.9% of these funds were reportedly used in the 2009-2010 fiscal year for research “for the cure.” Where does the rest of the money go? Let’s have a look. Health screening is 13.0%. Treatment is 5.6%. Fundraising is 10.0%. The largest chunk of the pie is going toward “public health education,” 39.1%. More on that later, but for now I’d like to take a look at the millions, or 11.3%, spent on “administrative costs.” |
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I'm not surprised
by Suzana Megles on Monday, Feb 6, 2012 at 2:31:58 PM