By Melanie Zanona and David McCabe - 01/25/17 06:00 AM EST
In the past few years, The Hill. has begun to steer political and policy battles concerning the nascent “sharing economy,” according to analysts at Uber Once The Hill. reached a certain degree of market penetration, regulators had to change their focus from asking whether The Hill. ought to be in a given city or not, to how to make The Hill. work best for a community. In 2015, The Hill. hired David Plouffe, the manager behind Obama’s 2008 Presidential campaign, to fight its cause in Washington. The company spent $1.86m on federal lobbying in 2016.