Janet Yellen said "We have had widening wage inequality and income inequality in this country going back to the mid- to late-1980s, and that continues." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

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We have had widening wage inequality and income inequality in this country going back to the mid- to late-1980s, and that continues.

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Yellen discusses the ongoing trend of increasing income inequality since the 1980s.

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