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On the recordOctober 3, 2011
I think most Americans perceive today that the middle class is collapsing, poverty is increasing, real unemployment as you know is about 16 percent, 25 million people without jobs or underemployed, and yet at the same time we have growing inequality--income in wealth inequality in America.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

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Sanders highlights economic inequality and unemployment issues facing Americans.

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