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Marie Antoinette, one of the most well-remembered queens in history, once said " let them eat cake "... ( well it was actually let them eat brioche or “Qu'ils mangent de la brioche.”
The 2018 count shows 552,800 people without homes across the country, up by about 2,000 from 2017, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's point-in-time tally. It was the second consecutive increase after seven straight years of declines.
The number of homeless referred to as unsheltered — those living in the streets, encampments or other open places — was more than 194,000 nationwide. That also was up from last year.
The growing concentration of the world’s wealth has been highlighted by a report showing that the 26 richest billionaires own as many assets as the 3.8 billion people who make up the poorest half of the planet’s population.
In an annual wealth check released to mark the start of the World Economic Forum in Davos, the development charity Oxfam said 2018 had been a year in which the rich had grown richer and the poor poorer.
World's 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50%, says Oxfam
One man could end world hunger, but he won’t – by Lee Camp
One man could end world hunger, but he won’t – by Lee Camp
The 2018 count shows 552,800 people without homes across the country, up by about 2,000 from 2017, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's point-in-time tally. It was the second consecutive increase after seven straight years of declines.
The number of homeless referred to as unsheltered — those living in the streets, encampments or other open places — was more than 194,000 nationwide. That also was up from last year.
The growing concentration of the world’s wealth has been highlighted by a report showing that the 26 richest billionaires own as many assets as the 3.8 billion people who make up the poorest half of the planet’s population.
In an annual wealth check released to mark the start of the World Economic Forum in Davos, the development charity Oxfam said 2018 had been a year in which the rich had grown richer and the poor poorer.
World's 26 richest people own as much as poorest 50%, says Oxfam
One man could end world hunger, but he won’t – by Lee Camp
One man could end world hunger, but he won’t – by Lee Camp