Today's Cartoon - The Rich Getting Richer

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(Stuart Carlson, via gocomics.com)

Here are some salient data from the Oxfam report (our emphasis):

A new report released on Monday by Oxfam warns that this deepening global inequality is unlike anything seen in recent years. 

Using research from Credit Suisse and Forbes' annual billionaires list, the anti-poverty charity was able to determine that the richest 1 percent of the world's population currently controls 48 percent of the world's total wealth. 

If trends continue, Oxfam predicts that the most-affluent will possess more wealth than the remaining 99 percent by 2016, The New York Times reported. 

Drill down the numbers even more and you'll learn that the 80 wealthiest people in the world possess $1.9 trillion, which is almost the same amount shared by some 3.5 billion people at the bottom half of the world's income scale. 

Thirty-five of the lucky 80 were Americans with a combined wealth of $941 billion. 

Nearly half of the richest 80 wealth hoarders in the world are Americans.  We're so proud.