Do we want a country where families participate in the wealth of this Nation, where they are able to send their children to college, plan for their retirement, own a home, be part of an ownership society, or one in which essentially fewer and fewer families are in a position to access those fundamental instruments related to quality of life?
On the recordMay 11, 2011
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Merkley questions the economic disparity affecting middle-class families.
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