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On the recordMarch 16, 2021
Incredibly, if income inequality had remained the same as it was in 1975, the average worker in America would be making $42,000 more today than he or she is earning.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

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Sanders points out the lost wages due to rising income inequality.

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