US corporate political spending rose nearly fourfold since Citizens United

Evidence

An easy demonstration of the politics in political economy is the rising influence of lobbying, “dark money,” and corporate campaign contributions in the U.S., which has risen nearly fourfold in the past twenty years, amplified by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010. — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, 62

Categorization

• CANDY: A clean conversational stat: corporate money into US politics up ~4x in twenty years, supercharged by one 2010 Court ruling.