The people on top, the top 1 percent, the top 2 percent, are doing phenomenally well at the same time as the middle class in this country is collapsing.
Bernie Sanders: “The people on top, the top 1 percent, the top 2 percent, are doing phenomenally well at the same time as the middle…”
On the recordJanuary 6, 2011
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Sanders highlights income inequality and its impact on the middle class.
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