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Maurice Hinchey: We now have a set of circumstances that if you look at the top 1 percent, you have the same amount of wealth in the…

On the recordOctober 28, 2009
We now have a set of circumstances that if you look at the top 1 percent, you have the same amount of wealth in the hands of the top 1 percent, the wealthiest 1 percent of the people, that you did in 1928 and 1929, right now.
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Maurice Hinchey
New York

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Hinchey points out the alarming wealth concentration similar to pre-Great Depression levels.

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