Anne Frank “My work with the poor and the incarcerated has persuaded me that the opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice. ” — Bryan Stevenson, social justice ...

The amount of wealth held by the top 1% of the country "rose from just under 30% in 1989 to 38.6% in 2016, " the CBPP added. Not only are ... relatively high rate of poverty," CNBC reported.