US billionaires got $1 trillion richer during Corona

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/27/18838682.php

by Jakob Reimann and Bernd Hontschik, Nov 2020

A recent study by the Institute for Policy Studies determined that the 647 billionaires in the USA have been able to increase their assets by $960 billion since the beginning of the corona crisis in mid-March by the cut-off date of November 17.

Eight million US-Americans* have fallen into poverty, 30 to 40 million are threatened with being thrown out of their apartments and houses due to corona disease. Suicide rates are rising. Out of this swamp of epidemic, death, poverty and misery, an island of resistance rises up that defies all this.

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