Abstract: During the epidemic, in order to suppress the continued spread of the new coronavirus, the United States also adopted blockade and isolation measures, which caused many companies to suffer serious losses, including the overall US economy has also received a huge impact. However, there are also a lot of rich people in production at this stage soared.

On May 22, during the epidemic, in order to suppress the continued spread of the new coronavirus, the United States also adopted blockade and isolation measures, which caused many companies to suffer serious losses, including the overall US economy has also received a huge impact. However, there are also a lot of rich people in production at this stage soared.

According to a report on the 21st of Beijing time, according to foreign media reports, a new report shows that during the epidemic blockade measures implemented by the United States from mid-March to mid-May this year, the total assets of more than 600 billionaires on the Forbes list soared 434 billion US dollars.

Amazon's Bezos and Facebook's Zuckerberg grew the fastest. Bezos's value surged by $ 34.6 billion in the past two months, and Zuckerberg's worth surged by $ 25 billion.

After analyzing the data from Forbes, the Americans for Tax Fairness and the Inequality Program Policy Research Institute found that from March 18 to March 19, most states began to block outbreaks. The billionaire's total assets increased from US $ 2.948 trillion to US $ 3.382 trillion, an increase of 15%.

In March this year, there were 613 billionaires on the Forbes list. Two months after the outbreak of the United States, there are currently 630 billionaires. These include the latest rap singer "Kan Ye" West, which is worth 1.3 billion US dollars.

According to the report, during the same period, "more than 38 million people in the United States lost their jobs, nearly 1.5 million people were infected with the virus, and nearly 90,000 people died. Of the other new coronavirus victims, more than 16 million Americans may have lost their jobs. Employers provide medical insurance. Low-income workers, people of color, and women have suffered disproportionately under the double blow of the health and economic crisis, and the vast majority of US billionaires are white. "

Frank Clement, executive director of the American Tax Fair, said: "This pandemic has revealed the fatal consequences of the growing gap between the rich and the poor in the United States, and billionaires are a clear sign of this inequality."