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Janet Yellen: “The results were predictable--incomes grew at the very top, but stagnated for everyone else.”

On the recordJuly 15, 2015
The results were predictable--incomes grew at the very top, but stagnated for everyone else.
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Janet Yellen
Democratic · California

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Yellen highlights the consequences of trickle-down economics on income distribution.

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