{"id":75461,"date":"2018-01-22T01:42:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T09:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/inequality-gap-widens-as-worlds-richest-1-get-82-of-the-wealth-oxfam-says"},"modified":"2018-01-22T01:42:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T09:42:30","slug":"inequality-gap-widens-as-worlds-richest-1-get-82-of-the-wealth-oxfam-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/inequality-gap-widens-as-worlds-richest-1-get-82-of-the-wealth-oxfam-says","title":{"rendered":"Inequality gap widens as \u2018world\u2019s richest 1% get 82% of the wealth,\u2019 Oxfam says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/inequality-gap-widens-as-worlds-richest-1-get-82-of-the-wealth-oxfam-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oxfam said its figures, which some observers have criticized, showed economic rewards were \u201cincreasingly concentrated\u201d at the top. The charity cited tax evasion, the erosion of worker\u2019s rights, cost-cutting and businesses\u2019 influence on policy decisions as reasons for the widening inequality gap.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Just 42 people own the same amount of wealth as the poorest 50 percent worldwide, a new study by global charity Oxfam claimed.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/01\/22\/wef-18-oxfam-says-worlds-richest-1-percent-get-82-percent-of-the-wealth.html\">https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/01\/22\/wef-18-oxfam-says-worlds-ric...ealth.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxfam said its figures, which some observers have criticized, showed economic rewards were \u201cincreasingly concentrated\u201d at the top. The charity cited tax evasion, the erosion of worker\u2019s rights, cost-cutting and businesses\u2019 influence on policy decisions as reasons for the widening inequality gap. Just 42 people own the same amount of wealth as the poorest 50 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,39,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economics","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}