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Bernie Sanders: “Never before in history have the people on top had so much…”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Published | Video Starts at 07:21

Over the last 50 years, there has been a $79 trillion redistribution of wealth from the bottom 90% to the top 1%. So that is one economic reality today. Never before in history have the people on top had so much wealth and so much power. But there is another economic reality that unfortunately, many of you are more than aware of, and that is that today, 60% of our people are living paycheck to paycheck. (07:21–07:29)

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Asserts unprecedented wealth and power concentration among the wealthy.

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