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On the recordMarch 31, 2014
Do we have a problem that one family, the Walton family of Wal-Mart, owns more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of the American people, one family?
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

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Senator Sanders questions extreme wealth concentration in America.

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