A new report finds that global inequities in wealth and income are "about as great today as they were at the peak of Western imperialism in the early 20th century."
In the nearly three decades since 1995, members of the global 1% have captured 38% of all new wealth while the poorest half of humanity has benefited from just 2%, a finding that spotlights the stark and worsening gulf between the very rich and everyone else.
