Over the past year alone, the top ten U.S. billionaires saw their wealth grow by an astounding $698 billion, enough to end homelessness in the U.S. for over sixty years or end world hunger

for twenty years. As working people across the nation face rising prices and costs for basic needs and see their state and local budgets slashed, billionaires are using their ever-expanding wealth to subvert democracy, travel to outer space, and -- unfortunately for the rest of us -- try and live forever.