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Elizabeth Warren: “You can't look at decades of growing productivity, with workers getting a smaller and smaller share of the profits they…”

On the recordMarch 3, 2021
You can't look at decades of growing productivity, with workers getting a smaller and smaller share of the profits they create, and think the economy looks fair.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Warren critiques the disparity in economic productivity and worker compensation.

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