Month: December 2018

The choropleth map below (created using Piktochart.com) shows political lobbyist spending per person last year. Using data pulled from FollowTheMoney.org (a site run by the National Institute on Money in State Politics) showing 2017 total lobbyist spending in 20 available states as well as the U.S. Census Bureau’s population estimates for those states, I calculated the amounts spent per person for that year. As can be seen on the map, there is quite the disparity between the amount lobbying firms spend, ranging as low as $2.15 per person in Maine to over 8x as much in Alaska with almost $18 spent per person.

https://create.piktochart.com/embed/35038552-lobbyist-spending-per-person-in-2017