Yep, you read that right... 85 people now own more than 3.5 billion other people on this planet:
Here's how bad it is: Oxfam now calculates that the 85 richest billionaires on the planet, including the likes of Carlos Slim, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, have as much money as the 3.5 billion poorest people.
And for all the talk about the urgent need to address income inequality, the mega-rich just keep on getting richer.
How much richer?
Oxfam estimates that between March 2013 and March 2014, those same 85 billionaires saw their wealth grow by $668 million every day.
http://www.usatoday.com/...
Democratic candidates need to put this issue at the very top of their agenda in 2016 and talk about it non-stop. In addition to Democrats, the majority of Independents and even many Republicans will understand that this kind of wealth inequality is fundamentally wrong and needs to be addressed a.s.a.p.