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Wealth Gap

Close-up of a person with a mask on reading a job application.
Jul 21

Black Americans’ Unemployment Payments Are 11 Percent Lower Than White Americans’ Due to Uneven State Policies

Researchers put a number to racial inequity in the U.S. unemployment benefits system, with Black Americans receiving weekly payments that were 11 percent lower than white Americans, on average.
By Courtney Vinopal
Jun 16

Petitions to Deny Jeff Bezos’s Return to Earth Gain Over 10,000 Signatures

"Billionaires should not exist...on earth," wrote one petition organizer.
By Sissi Cao
Jan 21

Davos Report: 2,153 Billionaires Are Richer Than 60% of the World’s Population Combined

If you had saved $10,000 a day for 4,500 years, you would still be 80 percent poorer than the world's five richest men today.
By Sissi Cao
John Oliver talks about the wealth gap on 'Last Week Tonight' in 2014.
May 10

The John Oliver Property Tax Scam: HBO Comedian Secretly Buys Manhattan Mansion

By Ken Silverstein
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