Over the last 3 months, 44 million US workers filed for unemployment while billionaires got $637 billion richer

Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images US billionaire wealth grew more than $637 billion between March 18 and June 11, according to a new report published Friday by the Institute for Policy Studies think tank. In this 12-week period, as US states imposed coronavirus lockdowns, billionaires' total wealth grew from $2.95 trillion to $3.58 trillion — a 21.5% increase. In that same period, over 44 million US workers filed for unemployment, with 1.5 million claims filed in the last...