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Justice, unity would solve income inequality

The growing income gap between the world’s richest and the poorest was again confirmed by a recently published report by the British charity Oxfam. The report, titled, “Working For the Few,” claims that a small elite group of more than 85 individuals hold wealth equivalent to that owned by the bottom half of the world's population. The study further says that the top 1 percent have 65 times the total wealth of the bottom half of the world’s population. The growing income gap between the world’s richest and the poorest was again confirmed by a recently published report by the British charity Oxfam. The report, titled, “Working For the Few,” claims that a small elite group of more than 85 individuals hold wealth equivalent to that owned by the bottom half of the world's population. The study further says that the top 1 percent have 65 times the total wealth of the bottom half of the world’s population. In the United States, America's 400 richest families have more w