{"id":86939,"date":"2019-01-23T00:42:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T08:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/worlds-26-richest-people-own-as-much-as-poorest-50-says-oxfam"},"modified":"2019-01-23T00:42:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T08:42:21","slug":"worlds-26-richest-people-own-as-much-as-poorest-50-says-oxfam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/worlds-26-richest-people-own-as-much-as-poorest-50-says-oxfam","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50%, says Oxfam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-26-richest-people-own-as-much-as-poorest-50-says-oxfam2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oxfam\u2019s director of campaigns and policy, Matthew Spencer, said: The massive fall in the number of people living in extreme poverty is one of the greatest achievements of the past quarter of a century but rising inequality is jeopardising further progress.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>It said the widening gap was hindering the fight against poverty, adding that a wealth tax on the 1% would raise an estimated $418bn (\u00a3325bn) a year \u2013 enough to educate every child not in school and provide healthcare that would prevent 3 million deaths.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2019\/jan\/21\/world-26-richest-people-own-as-much-as-poorest-50-per-cent-oxfam-report\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2019\/jan\/21\/world-26-ri...fam-report<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxfam\u2019s director of campaigns and policy, Matthew Spencer, said: The massive fall in the number of people living in extreme poverty is one of the greatest achievements of the past quarter of a century but rising inequality is jeopardising further progress. It said the widening gap was hindering the fight against poverty, adding that a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86939","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=86939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}