Item 1: “From the 2017 census to the 2022 census, there was an 8% decrease in farms owned by families or individuals, a 4% decrease in partnerships, and a 9% increase in corporations.”
See Alissa Cowell-Mytar, “Corporate Farm Ownership on the Rise,” Lancaster Farming, (Nov. 23, 2024), p. A14.
Item 2: “The net worth of the word’s 10 richest people rose $63.5 billion the day after the election, the biggest daily increase since Bloomberg began its wealth index in 2012. Tesla CEO Elon Musk alone saw his wealth increase by $26.5 billion. The gains came from a surge in U.S. stocks built on anticipation that Trump will cut taxes and regulations.
See The Week, (Nov. 22, 2024), p. 16.
That helped the working class
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