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Summer Lee: America's top 10 percent now average more than nine times as much income as the bottom 90 percent.

On the recordJanuary 28, 2020
America's top 10 percent now average more than nine times as much income as the bottom 90 percent.
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Summer Lee
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Highlighting income inequality in America.

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