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October 30, 2014

Report: Number of Billionaires Has Doubled Since Financial Crisis 
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The number of billionaires worldwide has more than doubled since the
financial crisis. A new report by Oxfam International finds the richest
85 people saw their collective wealth increase at a rate of nearly half
a million dollars a minute from 2013 to this year. Hundreds of millions
of people, meanwhile, live without access to clean drinking water and
sufficient food.

 

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