The assets of America's richest billionaires increased sharply.

VTV.vn - The 10 richest billionaires in the US have added nearly 700 billion USD to their assets in just the past year.

The above information is a new report by the non-profit organization Oxfam. Most of this super-rich group are technology leaders who benefit from the boom of artificial intelligence (AI), including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang...

On average, each of the 10 richest Americans earned nearly $70 billion more in the past year, 800,000 times the income of a typical American household.

However, according to Oxfam's report, more than 40% of the US population is currently classified as low-income. Oxfam warned that the gap between rich and poor in the US could continue to widen in the coming years, due to the impact of President Donald Trump's tax policy, unemployment and the risk of economic recession.

According to Oxfam, more than 40% of the US population – including nearly 50% of children – are now classified as poor or low-income. The gap between rich and poor in the US is getting worse. Between 1989 and 2022, a household in the top 1% of the country accumulated 101 times more wealth than the average household.

Today, the richest 0.1% of Americans own 12.6% of total wealth and 24% of the stock market, while the bottom 50% own just 1.1%. Women and people of color are hardest hit by wealth inequality. The median wealth of a male-headed household is four times that of a female-headed household. Whites have 7.2 times more wealth than Blacks and 6.7 times more wealth than Hispanics. Despite making up one-third of the U.S. population, Black and Hispanic households own just 5.8% of the nation’s total wealth.

Among the 10 largest economies in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the US ranks second from the bottom in terms of the effectiveness of its tax system in reducing inequality, and is the country with the highest relative poverty rate.

Although the US has the most billionaires in the world , most people are not benefiting from that prosperity. Moody's chief economist Mark Zandi said low-income households are "clinging to every penny to survive" as the cost of living soars, good jobs become scarce, and widespread layoffs add to their financial precariousness.

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