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Tax dollars help fund ACORN

By: EXAMINER SPECIAL REPORT
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February 12, 2009

Tax dollars help fund ACORN

ACORN gets approximately 40 percent of its revenue from taxpayers, including a $138,000 grant from the Department of Justice in 2005. The Department of Housing and Urban Development gave $8.2 million to ACORN and another $1.6 million to ACORN affiliates.

According to NPR, the rest of ACORN’s funding comes from various philanthropists, corporations and foundations including:

* Bannan Family Foundation: $425,000 (2006-07)

* Citigroup: $1.5 million (since 1993)

* George Soros: $150,000

* Ford Foundation: $1.3 million (since 1993)

* JP Morgan Chase Foundation: $2.4 million (since 1993)

* Service Employees International Union: $4 million (2006-07)
 



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Belinda Small

Feb 12, 2009

I wish they were not so slow to assign a counselor to me. I applied in Nov. 08

 


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