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Bernie Sanders: “The situation today in terms of income and wealth…”

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

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Senator to Senator: Graham Platner and Bernie Sanders

Published | Video Starts at 13:18

You know, we're living at a time, you know, when you and I were in school, we studied the Gilded Age. Remember that? The Rockefellers and the Carnegies and the Astors and the Vanderbilts, all these guys, incredibly wealthy. The situation today in terms of income and wealth inequality, much worse [than the Gilded Age]. You don't have the media that talks about it. Very few people in Congress are talking about. (13:18–13:23)

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Asserts that current income and wealth inequality is worse than during the Gilded Age.

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