{"id":100,"date":"2020-05-29T17:22:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T17:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chartsforthepeople.com\/?p=100"},"modified":"2021-09-13T10:14:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T10:14:52","slug":"billionaire-wealth-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chartsforthepeople.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/29\/billionaire-wealth-in-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire Wealth in the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>From the Institute for Policy Studies: <a href=\"https:\/\/ips-dc.org\/billionaire-bonanza-2020\/\">https:\/\/ips-dc.org\/billionaire-bonanza-2020\/<\/a><\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The wealth of America\u2019s billionaires increased 10.6 percent between the Forbes global billionaires lists released in 2017, when Trump was inaugurated, and 2020. That number may be rising even more sharply now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On April 10, 2020, Forbes\u2019 daily tally showed both an increase in the number of billionaires and a surge in billionaire net worth. Billionaire wealth increased by 9.5 percent in just 23 days during the COVID-19 crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"744\" height=\"598\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chartsforthepeople.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/billionaire-wealth-in-the-usa.png?resize=744%2C598&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chartsforthepeople.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/billionaire-wealth-in-the-usa.png?w=744&amp;ssl=1 744w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chartsforthepeople.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/billionaire-wealth-in-the-usa.png?resize=300%2C241&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Institute for Policy Studies: https:\/\/ips-dc.org\/billionaire-bonanza-2020\/ The wealth of America\u2019s billionaires increased 10.6 percent between the Forbes global billionaires lists released in 2017, when Trump was inaugurated, and 2020. That number may be rising even more sharply now. On April 10, 2020, Forbes\u2019 daily tally showed both an increase in the number of billionaires &#8230; <a title=\"Billionaire Wealth in the USA\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/chartsforthepeople.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/29\/billionaire-wealth-in-the-usa\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Billionaire Wealth in the USA\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cftp","category-inequality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chartsforthepeople.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chartsforthepeople.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chartsforthepeople.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chartsforthepeople.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chartsforthepeople.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chartsforthepeople.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/chartsforthepeople.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chartsforthepeople.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chartsforthepeople.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chartsforthepeople.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}