Just imagine during the early months of the pandemic, when local businesses across the country closed and millions of hungry Americans turned to food banks for the first time, over a period of seven-month America’s 614 billionaires grew their net worth by a collective $931 billion. And today, according to a Washington Post report the wealthiest 1 percent of American households own 40 percent of the country’s wealth and the bottom 90 percent of families holding less than one-quarter of all wealth. This share is higher than it has been at any point since at least 1962. Before I go any further, I want to share a short passage from a book that I recently received. The book entitled “ For the Well-Being of All: Eliminating the Extremes of Wealth and Poverty ” was published by the Bahá’í Publishing Trust of USA. One page 9, it says, “ The inordinate disparity between rich and poor, a source of acute suffering, keeps the world in a state of instability, virtually on the brink of war. Few ...