{"id":287579,"date":"2026-09-16T20:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T20:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/287579\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T20:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T20:42:12","slug":"pas-richest-person-is-worth-77-8-billion-ranks-18th-nationally-on-forbes-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/287579\/","title":{"rendered":"PA&#8217;s Richest Person Is Worth $77.8 Billion, Ranks 18th Nationally On Forbes List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PENNSYLVANIA \u2014 With a net worth of $908 billion, Elon Musk again tops the Forbes 400, a ranking of the nation\u2019s wealthiest billionaires that includes Jeff Yass, the richest person in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Forbes said Musk\u2019s place at the top of its 45th annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/forbes-400\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Forbes 400<\/a> ranking shows \u201cthe wealth gap is widening, even among the ultra-rich.\u201d Those on the ranking, released Tuesday, are worth a record $8 trillion, up from $6.6 trillion a year ago. Together, the 20 richest billionaires account for $4 trillion of the total, up from $970 billion from last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PENNSYLVANIA \u2014 With a net worth of $908 billion, Elon Musk again tops the Forbes 400, a ranking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-287579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}