The costs of the election campaigns of US presidential hopefuls from the Republican and Democratic Parties, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, have totaled $1.63bn. This tidy sum could cover the monthly expenses of 415,796 middle class families in the US.

Poverty is an irrefutable phenomenon in the US. The US large economy has failed to translate into economic justice. In the year 2014, a total of 47 million Americans were mired in poverty.

Moreover, the financial capacity of 91.6 million other Americans, which constitute 30% of the US population, is only twice the financial ability of those Americans, who live below the poverty line.

A simple comparison between the budget of these families and the costs of the election campaigns of the two candidates, who are running for president in the US, reveals the bitter realities in that country.

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