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Bernie Sanders: “The top 400 Americans in this country saw a huge increase in their net worth, in fact, by $640 billion from 2001 to…”

On the recordJanuary 7, 2009
The top 400 Americans in this country saw a huge increase in their net worth, in fact, by $640 billion from 2001 to 2007.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Sanders highlights the significant wealth increase of the richest Americans during the early 2000s.

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