It should be unthinkable that during a global health pandemic, while so many working families were struggling to get by, that billionaires got richer, but they did.
Alex Padilla: “It should be unthinkable that during a global health pandemic, while so many working families were struggling to get by…”
On the recordFebruary 16, 2022
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Padilla criticizes the wealth increase of billionaires during the pandemic.
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