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The Chimes
The Student News Site of Biola University

The Chimes
The Student News Site of Biola University

The Chimes

The wealth gap is widening under coronavirus

Putting profit before people skews the Church's mindset and warps its message.
Billionaires should not be flourishing during a pandemic while the poor are suffering.
Brianna Clark, Opinions Editor (Spring 2020) • September 7, 2020

COVID-19 has devastated the world—some more than others. Unemployment rates are higher than those of the 2008 Great Recession. Many have been threatened by landlords’ eviction notices, and in the earlier months of the coronavirus, we were all scrounging for toilet paper. Yet Jeff Bezos, founder of...