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On the recordMarch 31, 2014
From a moral perspective, do you have a problem that the top one percent owns 38 percent of the financial wealth of America while the bottom 60 percent owns all of 2.3 percent?
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

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Senator Sanders highlights income inequality as a moral issue.

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