How the Richest Person in Each State Made Their Fortune
By Paul Feinstein, Stacker News
On 3/11/21 at 6:30 PM EST
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Whether it s a hedge-fund billionaire, tech giant, industrial titan, or someone simply born into the right family, the wealthiest people in every state each have their own stories. In today s political climate, the super-rich have plenty of influence over our political process, from lobbying members of the government and contributing to presidential bids to running ad campaigns in favor of specific causes.
To figure out who s on top of each state s rich list, Forbes tracks groups of billionaires (or centimillionaires in states with no billionaires) and updates their findings annually. Stacker analyzed this data to compile a list of the uber-wealthy and then broke down how each person earned their fortune. This list accounts for individuals wealth as of June 26, 2019, but keep in mind the tides of fortune are always shif
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A report in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram this week said that the “medical portion of the prison” â the hospital facilities â appeared to maintain heat, but the newspaper also collected accounts from the housing units that matched those given by Winner’s advocates: shortages of hot water, loss of heat, and issues with waste management.
Suffering was widespread across Texas, where local authorities have raised alarm over people so desperate for warmth that they used cars and charcoal grills to heat their homes and suffered carbon monoxide poisoning. To Winner’s advocates, the crisis inside the prison felt like the latest unjust blow for an incarcerated person who, like many across the United States’s sprawling prison system, could have been released to home confinement long ago when the government made a halfhearted effort to reduce the federal prison population in the early days of the pandemic. Prosecutors involved in Winnerâs case opposed the policy a