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On the recordJanuary 27, 2015
Today, if you can believe it, the top one-tenth of one percent own almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

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Sanders points out extreme wealth concentration in the U.S.

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