A bar chart titled “The Cost of Billionaires Visualized” compares major U.S. expenses to the 2024 year-over-year wealth gains of just 100 billionaires. Bars represent spending or gains in billions of dollars and are labeled with household-level (HH) equivalents. Categories shown include:
• Ending homelessness: $20B ($159 per household)
• Federal employees: $210B ($1,670/HH)
• Teacher salaries: $214B ($1,702/HH)
• Gasoline: $307B ($2,449/HH)
• Groceries: $664B ($5,278/HH)
• Defense budget: $824B ($6,553/HH)
• 100 billionaires: $1,094B ($8,700/HH)
A red banner at the bottom reads: “If we can’t afford groceries, we definitely can’t afford billionaires.”
Sources listed include HUD, NEA, BLS, USDA, OPM, and Bloomberg (Dec. 31, 2024).
If you took the $1.1 trillion earned by just 100 billionaires last year and mailed every household a check, it'd be $8,700 each.
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Federal health agencies told to halt all external communications
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