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Sheldon Whitehouse: “Today's Wall Street Journal says that the median net worth of white households is 20 times greater than that of minority…”

On the recordJuly 25, 2011
Today's Wall Street Journal says that the median net worth of white households is 20 times greater than that of minority households.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Discussing wealth disparity among different racial groups in America.

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