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Barack Obama: In America, our economy doesn't grow from the top down. It grows from the middle class out.

On the recordNovember 1, 2013
In America, our economy doesn't grow from the top down. It grows from the middle class out.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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The President's Weekly Address

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