American billionaires have gotten half a trillion richer during the pandemic, but the country's racial wealth gap has grown, too
The net worths of Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Tesla's Elon Musk, and Zoom's Eric Yuan have grown by billions since March.
REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo; Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Dropbox; REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne; Taylor Nicole Rogers/Business Insider American billionaires are now nearly 20% richer — by $565 billion, to be exact — than they were at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report bySix billionaires, including Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Tesla's Elon Musk, and Zoom's Eric Yuan, have seen their net worths grow by more than $2 billion each since March, according toThe coronavirus crisis has been an economic disaster for the rest of America, as an...
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