The three richest people in the US, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Warren Buffett, have more fortunes than half the US population, or 160 million Americans together.
The wealthiest wealth analysis in the US has come to the conclusion that Gates, Bezos, and Buffett have together an empire of $ 248.5 billion.
The Institute for Political Studies says the growth of the gap between the rich and the poor has created a moral crisis.
In a report, the Institute says proposals for changing the Donald Trump tax system would further deepen existing inequalities because 80 percent of tax benefits would go to 1 percent of the rich.
According to the study, billionaires included in the list of 400 richest US holders of the Forbes magazine have a fortune of $ 2.67 trillion more than the United Kingdom's Gross Domestic Product.
According to the report, billionaires are still lagging behind the rest of the people, even at the fastest rate ever recorded, transmits tch. "We have not seen so extreme levels of concentration of wealth and power since a century ago," the report's drafters said.
"Forbes" called 2017 as another record year for rich people in America, while the prize to be accepted at the most exclusive club has risen by 18 percent or $ 2 billion.