In the year since the global spread of COVID-19, it seems fair to say every person on Earth has struggled... but WOW has it been a great time to be a billionaire.  

With the wealth billionaires gained in the last year alone, they could afford to give every US resident about $4,000 and still be as rich as they were at the beginning of the pandemic.  

COVID-19 didn’t create the systems whose flaws became glaringly evident in 2020—such as the disparities between the rich and the rest of us, racism that took lives through COVID and violence.  

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Here are a few articles from Building a People-First Economy you don't want to miss: 

• The pandemic makes America’s wealth disparity painfully obvious, but the way wealth accumulates at the top is not new—corporations and their executives have been getting richer while the rest of the country has struggled for decades, enabled by a tax code written for their benefit. Read "Out of the Loop: Exposing Corporate Power".

• "More than the Minimum: Why We Need a Liveable Wage"  When no amount of work is enough to support your family, you live in a system with unjust wages. Living wages are a theory, and for some, a reality that shows a different way is possible.