Oxfam says richest 1% in world got 82% of worth's wealth last year

Oxfam says most of the world's new wealth went to 1% of people last year and pressed for better wages and gender parity for women in the work force. Critics complained of Oxfam's selective statistics, noting that more than 1.2bn people have been taken out of extreme poverty in the past 30 years.

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