this is stated in the report, published by the American Institute for policy studies IPS. The enrichment of billionaires is accelerating, while other Americans are losing jobs and a reduction in savings, experts say.
So, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the first in the list of the wealthiest people in the world, has become richer by 36.2 billion dollars, the founder of Facebook mark Zuckerberg – 30.1 billion, Elon Musk 14.1 billion. The former new York mayor Michael Bloomberg increased by 12.1 billion dollars, and bill gates to 11.8 billion.
Earlier this year, Forbes reported that the overall condition of U.S. billionaires has declined compared with indicators of 2019 from 3.1 trillion dollars to 2.9 trillion. However, according to experts IPS, “these losses were quickly compensated in a few weeks.” As of the fourth of June, the General state of U.S. billionaires has $ 3.5 trillion, an increase of 401 billion US dollars compared to the figure from last year’s Forbes list of billionaires.
Also the 16 billionaires more than two months ago, said the experts of the center. Some billionaires lost their wealth since the beginning of the year, especially in the oil and gas sector. Many of those who became much richer, control the sphere of high technologies, services and online sales on the Internet, the demand for which has grown at times during a pandemic.
on the other hand, statistics published by the fourth of June, the U.S. labor Department show that only last week, the U.S. Bureau of employment were filed with 2.1 million new applications for unemployment benefits. The number of unemployed reached 42.6 million people. While this does not include the millions of Americans who asked for help as self-employed workers. In the US meanwhile, continued layoffs, caused by a coronavirus pandemic. And the end of the year work can lose one in three Americans.
“This is a grotesque indicator of the great inequality in society in the United States”, – concluded the expert of the analytical center IPS.
