{"id":22320,"date":"2017-12-15T09:54:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T08:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=22320"},"modified":"2017-12-15T09:54:16","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T08:54:16","slug":"and-the-mega-rich-just-become-richer-and-richer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=22320","title":{"rendered":"And the mega rich just become richer and richer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The richest 1% of the global population took 27% of the world\u2019s wealth growth between 1980 and 2016, while the richest of the rich increased their wealth by even more. The top 0.1% gained 13% of the world\u2019s wealth, and the top 0.001% \u2013 about 76,000 people \u2013 collected 4% of all the new wealth created since 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Here in Britain, the richest 1% control 22% of the country\u2019s wealth, up from 15% in 1984. The very richest in the UK have seen a huge increase in their wealth. The top 0.1% \u2013 around 50,000 people \u2013 have seen their share of the nation\u2019s wealth double from 4.5% in 1984 to 9% in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>These are just a few figures from the latest World Inequality Report published this week. You can access that report, with an executive summary in different languages, <a href=\"http:\/\/wir2018.wid.world\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The richest 1% of the global population took 27% of the world\u2019s wealth growth between 1980 and 2016, while the richest of the rich increased their wealth by even more. The top 0.1% gained 13% of the world\u2019s wealth, and the top 0.001% \u2013 about 76,000 people \u2013 collected 4% of all the new wealth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22320"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22323,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22320\/revisions\/22323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}