Using data from their list Forbes has produced a list of the top 25 richest families in the world. Together they are worth over $1.1 trillion, or the entire GDP of Indonesia.
Meanwhile, the top 1 percent have more wealth than the poorest half of the world’s adults.
As global crises of climate change, forced migration and conflict continue to heat up, battering the planet’s most vulnerable, the age-old story remains true: the world’s rich keep getting richer, and the poor keep getting poorer, and the trend is only expected to continue, according to a new report released
There is enough money in the bonus pool to raise pay to a living wage of $15 an hour for either all of the country’s 2.6 million restaurant servers and bartenders, all 1.6 million home health and personal care aides, or all 2.6 million fast food preparation and serving workers.
Published in partnership with Shadowproof. Bailouts for nothing and get out of jail free. A new report [PDF] by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) calculates that the Wall Street bonus pool –
