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Janet Yellen: “We have had widening wage inequality and income inequality in this country going back to the mid- to late-1980s, and…”

On the recordNovember 13, 2013
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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Janet Yellen
Democratic · California

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

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