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Bill and Melinda Gates, along with Warren Buffet in 2010 started a series of conversations with the super-wealthy around the world that led to the creation of the Giving Pledge. They wanted to set a new standard of generosity to address some of the world’s most pressing issues.

Bill and Melinda Gates, along with Warren Buffet in 2010 started a series of conversations with the super-wealthy around the world that led to the creation of the Giving Pledge. They wanted to set a new standard of generosity to address some of the world’s most pressing issues.

The Amazon CEO and four other billionaires are part of the world's most exclusive club in the midst of the pandemic: those whose fortunes exceed $100 billion.

The gap between the richest and the poorest U.S. households is now the largest it's been in the past 50 years, the U.S. Census Bureau says.

New data illustrate how deeply entrenched the racial wealth gap is. The reasons traverse the historical and deliberate exclusion of people of color from economic institutions and government programs.