After the novel coronavirus tore through communities worldwide and left a path of economic and public health devastation in its wake, many sectors are still struggling to recover. Compared to last year, the unemployment rate in the United States has doubled, the long-term unemployment rate has risen, and more than 8 million U.S. residents have slipped under the poverty line since last summer. But despite all of the signs of economic distress on the ground and in our communities, the stock market has been going strong – really strong. In fact, at the same time that many were slipping into poverty, a stock market going gangbusters was creating a new club of hundred billionaires , with Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos leading the way. 2020 was, in fact, a year for the record books for Musk, who even briefly overtook Jeff Bezos as the richest man on Earth after […]