Opening Our Eyes to Human Suffering

Wealth Inequality – a world of concentrated wealth & poverty • Half of the people in the world live on less than $2.50 a day • 80% of the world’s people live on less than $10 a day • 80% of the world’s people live in countries where the income gaps are widening • The net worth of the richest 1% of U.S. citizens is 225 times the average or median household • The richest 10% owns 85% of global wealth. The bottom half of the world’s population possesses barely 1% of total global wealth • The top 0.1% is worth as much as the bottom 90% in the U.S.