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The 6 richest Americans are worth more than the GDP of 13 US states combined, including Delaware, Maine, and Hawaii

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America’s richest keep getting richer.

The six richest Americans are worth more than the GDP of 13 states combined, including Delaware, Maine, and Vermont, according to data from Forbes and the US Department of Commerce.

The publication’s rich list contains six “centibillionaires” — people worth at least $100 billion each.

In a new report, the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) said this meant that individually, each of the centibillionaires had a net worth bigger than the GDP of each of the 13 poorest US states.

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