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Sanders' Net Worth: Less Than Half of Clinton's Honoraria from Goldman Sachs

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Bernie Sanders Publishes Tax Returns Showing $205,000 Earnings Following Hillary Clinton's Challenge

Hillary Clinton was paid $675,000 for just three speeches by banking giant Goldman Sachs.

Ms Clinton generally commands a minimum of $225,000 per speech, or over four times as much as the $52,000 (£36,000) the average American citizen earns in a year. She once pocketed $315,000 for a 20-minute address to Ebay staff.

Mr Sanders' income, by way of contrast, is largely derived from his $175,000 Senate salary. His wife, Jane Sanders, makes $5,000 annually as a radioactive waste disposal commisioner, and the couple also receive social security benefits and a small annual pension.


Mr. Sanders' grassroots campaign is funded by 3 million small donors.
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)
 

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