Corporate political transparency ratings

Many of Amer­ica’s most power­ful com­pan­ies do not re­port how much they spend to in­flu­ence elec­tions and le­gis­la­tion. These com­pan­ies con­trib­ute mil­lions of dol­lars to power­ful trade as­so­ci­ations and to oth­er polit­ic­ally act­ive groups that are not re­quired to re­port the sources of their fund­ing.

Those groups, in turn, spend the money on lob­by­ing and oth­er polit­ic­al activ­ity. The Los Angeles Times re­viewed how the 75 largest pub­licly traded com­pan­ies in the en­ergy, health­care and fin­an­cial ser­vices sec­tors dis­close their polit­ic­al giv­ing on their cor­por­ate web­sites.