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On the recordJanuary 15, 2014
And one of the most striking graphs that you had was that bridge graph where you showed, right before the Great Depression, that there was this high amount of inequality, and then it got better, and then it's coming up again, and here we have what we call the Great Recession.
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Amy Klobuchar
Democratic · Minnesota

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Klobuchar highlights the correlation between inequality and economic downturns.

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