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On the recordSeptember 20, 2011
So pre-recession, we were 32 percent at the best, anywhere from 11 percent to 32 percent growth, versus 256 percent growth for that top 1 percent perched at the top of the economic ladder, the income strata.
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Paul Tonko
Democratic · New York

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