Sam Pizzigati Archives - BSNEWS https://bsnews.info/tags/sam-pizzigati/ News You Won't Find on BBC or ITN Wed, 20 Jan 2016 23:28:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://bsnews.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/cropped-truth1-55x55.jpg Sam Pizzigati Archives - BSNEWS https://bsnews.info/tags/sam-pizzigati/ 32 32 49333625 Can the Davos Rich Do More than Talk? https://bsnews.info/can-the-davos-rich-do-more-than-talk/ https://bsnews.info/can-the-davos-rich-do-more-than-talk/#respond Wed, 20 Jan 2016 23:28:06 +0000 http://bsnews.info/?p=13781 Back in 2010, as the global charity Oxfam reminds us in a new report released on the eve of Davos 2016, the world’s 388 richest billionaires had a combined fortune that equaled the net worth of the poorest half of the world’s population.

But last year just 62 top billionaires had enough net worth to match the wealth of humanity’s poorest half. That bottom half totals some 3.6 billion people.

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