(CNN Business) – The multimillionaires are accumulating money during the pandemic, including when millions of people are living in the streets of the poor.
The multidisciplinary stadiums have collected a whopping 1.1 billion dollars – about 40% – from March, according to a news release published on March by the progressive groups Institute for Policy Studies and Americans for Tax Fairness.
In other words, the superheroes not only recovered their losses from the primavera, many of them are doing much better than before. This is in large part due to the creation of the value market.
Elon Musk, solo, is approximately US $ 155,000 million richer, boosted by Tesla’s market value.
Coincidentally, six people joined the multimillionaire groups on March 18, 2020, the week after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, according to the report.
Obviously, the pandemic is escalating into the impending crisis of inequality in the United States. The congested areas in the superior part of the population are in stark contrast to the financial holes of those in the lower part, many of the caves are in the first line of the pandemic and have lost their jobs or are being recruited.
The 660 multimillionaires of the United States now have 4.1 billion dollars in wealth, more than three times the 50% lower of the state population, according to the report.
The bag of poverty increases drastically
More than 8 million state cayeron in poverty during the last six months of 2020, real-time sessions published by economists from the University of Chicago, Notre Dame University and the Lab for Economic Opportunities.
The United States’ poverty line will be reduced during the first months of the pandemic, in large part due to federal governing body estimates. Without embargo, the poverty rate falls to 2.4 percentage points over the second half of this year, just as the mayor doubled the annual poverty rate since the 1960s, meeting economists.
Some groups are more satisfied than others. The poverty rate for blacks is 5.4 percentage points higher than in June 2020, which translates to 2.4 million people who worked in poverty, the economists say.
For those with secondary education at least, the poverty rate has risen to 22.5%, compared to 17% in June.
Florida, Mississippi, Arizona and Carolina del Norte are entrenched among the states that will rise the mayors in poverty. The state-level halls “suggest that poverty will increase more in the states with less effective job security systems”, economists said in the news.