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On the recordDecember 13, 2012
When we have a situation in this country where the top 1 percent of Americans, 1 percent, control as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent, that's not a healthy situation. I don't want to moralize about it. It's just not a healthy situation.
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Janice Schakowsky
Democratic · Illinois

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