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Wealthy Earned Enough to End Poverty in 2017

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Report: Wealthy Earned Enough to End Poverty in 2017

Last year, the world’s billionaires made over $462 billion combined, enough money to end extreme poverty around the globe seven times over. With a new billionaire added to the list nearly every two days, wealth inequality widened, according to a new report from Oxfam. Forty-two of the richest people in the world now hold as much…

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