The combined wealth of the US's billionaires, including Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and Tesla chief Elon Musk, has increased nearly 10% during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a report published by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS).

The wealth surge of the US's richest people happened as almost 22-million Americans filed for unemployment...

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