In Response to Oxfam Inequality Report, Sanders Calls for Global Movement to Counter 'Greed of Billionaire Class'

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The White House hopeful emphasized the need to bring people across the globe together to work for "a world of economic, social, political and environmental justice."

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Jessica Corbett

Sen. Bernie Sanders, who has spent his several decades in politics fighting for working people and believes that "billionaires should not exist," responded to a new Oxfam International report on inequality by calling Tuesday for a global movement to pursue economic justice.

Oxfam, as Common Dreams reported Monday, found that "in 2019, the world's billionaires, only 2,153 people, had more wealth than 4.6 billion people." The report blamed this wealth disparity on the world's "flawed and sexist economic system" and urged governments across the globe to take "decisive action" to address it.

Sanders (I-Vt.), a top candidate in the crowded 2020 Democratic presidential primary race, responded to the report by declaring that "we live in a world where a tiny handful of billionaires have extraordinary control over the economic and political life of the global community."

"According to a new report from Oxfam, the top 1% own more than twice as much wealth than the rest of humanity—combined," Sanders said in a statement. "Meanwhile, nearly half of the global population is trying to survive on less than $5.50 a day and 820 million are going hungry."

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