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15 wealthiest counties in the US

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California and Virginia are each home to four of America’s richest counties, according to a recent ranking from U.S. News & World Report. 

The publication ranked U.S. counties by median household income using the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey estimates from 2018 to 2022. 

According to the survey, 116 counties or county equivalents had median household incomes above six figures. These 15 counties were the wealthiest: 

1. Loudoun County, Va. — $170,463 median household income

2. Falls Church, Va. — $164,536

3. Santa Clara County, Calif. — $153,792

4. San Mateo County, Calif. — $149,907

5. Fairfax County, Va. — $145,165

6. Marin County, Calif. — $142,019

7. Howard County, Md. — $140,971

8. Douglas County, Colo. — $139,010

9. Nassau County, N.Y. — $137,709

10. Arlington County, Va. — $137,387

11. San Francisco County, Calif. — $136,689

12. Los Alamos County, N.M. — $135,801

13. Nantucket County, Mass. — $135,590

14. Hunterdon County, N.J. — $133,534

15. Somerset County, N.J. — $131,948

Report American Billionaires have added more than 1 trillion in wealth during pandemic

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2021/01/26/report-american-billionaires-have-added-more-than-1-trillion-in-wealth-during-pandemic/?sh=42ddb3c02564&fbclid=IwAR02_4m3nNJXrC_ES-8EuwGI7Xqn12SH5EhxYqT5Eu-d6HnV3WcWH4hcQ8I
Report: American Billionaires Have Added More Than $1 Trillion In Wealth During Pandemic

America’s billionaires have added a staggering $1.1 trillion to their collective wealth since the pandemic began. Their combined fortunes now sit at $4.1 trillion — $1.7 trillion more than the amount of wealth held by the bottom half of Americans.

Meanwhile, the country’s poverty rate increased by 2.4 percentage points in the latter half of 2020 — the largest increase in poverty since the 1960s. And to think that Senate Republicans are decrying a $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill as too expensive.

Please. America’s billionaires alone could finance most of that bill, just with the increase in their wealth over the last 10 months. An emergency wealth tax that used their $1.1 trillion windfall to pay for the COVID survival plan would put these billionaires back to where they were 10 months ago (still very comfortable, to say the least) while helping the rest of America survive.

This is the sort of trickle-down economics that could actually work. What do you think?