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Bernie Sanders: “The top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 93%.”

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

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Bernie Sanders Advocates for Workers' Rights and Pension Reform in Senate Hearing

Published | Video Starts at 00:19

I don't have any good Uber stories, but what I do know is that in America today we have more income and wealth inequality than we have ever had in the history of the United States. We have a situation where The top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 93%. CEOs of large corporations now earn 350 times more than their average workers. According to the RAND Corporation, not a socialist operation. (00:19–00:24)

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Asserts that the wealth of the top 1% exceeds that of the bottom 93% of Americans.

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