What is real poverty

mag glassFood for Thought from MarketWatch.com:

The richest two percent of the world’s population owns more than half of the world’s household wealth. Although you may believe you’ve heard this statistic before, you haven’t: For the first time, personal wealth, not income, has been measured around the world. And the findings are surprising. For what makes people “wealthy” across the world spectrum is a relatively low bar. See Sophisticated Investor.

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Author: Rick Outzen

Rick Outzen is the publisher/owner of Pensacola Inweekly. He has been profiled in The New York Times and featured in several True Crime documentaries. Rick also is the author of the award-winning Walker Holmes thrillers. His latest nonfiction book is “Right Idea, Right Time: The Fight for Pensacola’s Maritime Park.”