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Nick Galasso

Dr. Nick Galasso is an American Council of Learned Societies Public Fellow, serving Oxfam America as a research and policy advisor. He leads Oxfam’s work on economic inequality.

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	Views Thursday, October 22, 2015 Oxfam’s Crystal Ball Confirmed: The Top 1% Now Own Over Half of the World’s Wealth The world’s richest 1 percent now own more wealth than all of the bottom 99 percent combined. This finding comes from Credit Suisse’s Global Wealth Report for 2015 , released last week. Last year, Credit Suisse found the richest 1 percent of adults owned 48 percent of global wealth. According to... Read more
	Views Wednesday, June 24, 2015 Message to Congress on Trade and Inequality: Wake Up, 'Trickle-Down' is Dead! The debate over trade is red-hot these days. Proponents in Congress are revving up this week to push through their ‘Plan B’ after a grassroots uprising took them by surprise earlier this month and defeated ‘Plan A’, which the Obama administration had hoped would grant it ‘fast track’ trade... Read more
	Views Thursday, February 26, 2015 8 Ways to Reduce Global Inequality Extreme economic inequality is corrosive. It makes poverty reduction harder, hurts our economies, and drives conflict and violence. Reversing this trend presents a significant challenge, but one where we’ve seen some progress. Below we offer eight ways to move the world forward in reducing global... Read more