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On the recordJune 24, 2014
I feel like if that were true, we would have all the jobs we could possibly want right now since that is where an enormous concentration is, at the very top.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Merkley critiques the idea that wealth at the top creates jobs.

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