Three American billionaires richer than 50% of US population
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The state of the three richest Americans exceeds the total state of the poorest half of the US population, that is, 160 million people.
This is evidenced by research data Institute for Policy Studies.
Total wealth chapter Amazon Jeff Bezos, Founder Microsoft Bill Gates and investor Warren Buffett is about $ 260 billion (the researchers used data from Forbes), and this is more than the combined wealth of the poorest 63 million American families - 160 million people.
In addition, the richest US billionaires 25 together own a fortune of $ 1 trillion, so they have the same fortune as 56% of the US population (178 million people or 70 million families).
A total of US billionaires included with the list Forbes-400, own more wealth than the bottom 64% of the US population - 204 million people (more than the populations of Canada and Mexico combined).
The condition of the average American family, not taking into account the cost of the car, is $ 80 000.
One in five families in the United States (more than 19%) has zero or negative wealth, that is, they live on borrowed funds or are mired in debt. This rate is even higher in African-American and Hispanic families in the United States - 30% and 27%, respectively.
Forbes values 400 richest Americans since 1982. To get into the first rating, it was enough to have a wealth of $ 100 million. In 2017, the passing threshold reached a record $ 2 billion.
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