The 99%, or Where’s the Money?

Did you hear about the report (“An Economy for the 99%”) from Oxfam about where all the world’s money is?  According to that international poverty-fighting group, it comes out this way: Add the wealth of all of the world’s 3.6 billion poorest people and it roughly equals the $436 billion held by eight (8!) men–not women or families but 8 individual men.  Then add together the wealth of the 180 poorest countries  and it does NOT equal the wealth of the ten largest countries.

And this inequality is increasing.  Which widens the divisions in society.

Just something to think about.

 

 

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