Who are Americans?

The bottom 50% of Americans earn less than 13% of all the income, and the richest 1% of Americans earn 21.2% of all the income in America according to a Wall Street Journal report taken from information from the IRS. Will this gap continue to grow and is it similar to other countries?

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent American federal government agency responsible for providing economic and humanitarian assistance around the world.
“In the 1970s, 70 percent of resource flows from the United States to the developing world were from official development assistance and 30 percent were private. Today, 85 percent of resource flows from [...]

Baptist World Aid (BWAID) is a registered charity (Falls Church, Virginia) and the compassionate arm of the Baptist World Alliance and has been working for over 85 years to provide aid to the needy around the world, regardless of tribe, caste, color or religion. Almost $10-million per year is provided in global assistance.
BWAID uses the [...]

About 97.5% of the water on earth is seawater, but can you use untreated seawater to create productive farms on desert coastlands? The Seawater Foundation, based in Arizona, has developed technology to create coastal farms which can be irrigated using seawater from the oceans of the world. This is done by directly using the seawater [...]

Gary Sinise (CSI: New York) and author Laura Hillenbrand (Seabiscuit) created Operation Iraqi Children (OIC) in 2004 to help Iraqi children through the efforts of American soldiers. OIC has delivered nearly 200,000 school supply kits, more than half a million toys and thousands of Arabic-language books, shoes, blankets, sports equipment, backpacks and other items which [...]

Founded in 1961 by student volunteers to helps the poor in Caracas, Venezuela, Boston-based charity ACCION International now provides micro-loans throughout Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, Africa and the USA. Since 1996, ACCION and its partners have served more than 4 million borrowers with more than $12.3 billion dollars in microfinancing loans.

New York-based International Rescue Committee (IRC) serves refugees and communities victimized by oppression or violent conflict worldwide thru emergency relief, protection of human rights, post-conflict development, resettlement assistance and advocacy. It is estimated more than 30 million people are displaced worldwide because of war, with half of them being children.

Give Kids The World (GKTW), a 70-acre non-profit resort in Central Florida, has provided free fantasy vacations for over 75,000 children with life threatening illnesses, including children from all 50 USA States and over 50 countries.
Started in 1986, Give Kids The World features 102-villas, a whimsical restaurant, a castle play area, ice cream palace, movie theater, interactive water [...]