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Jeff Merkley: “The best-off are the job creators, so if we concentrate wealth with the job creators, we will have more jobs.”

On the recordSeptember 16, 2014
The best-off are the job creators, so if we concentrate wealth with the job creators, we will have more jobs.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

Editor's note · Context

Merkley questions the validity of the theory that wealth concentration leads to job creation.

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