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Bernie Sanders: “There was a $75 trillion transfer of wealth from the bottom…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 08:26

Despite huge increases in worker, productivity have not gone up. Workers are making the same, maybe a little bit less than they were 50 years ago. And during that time, There was a $75 trillion transfer of wealth from the bottom 90% to the top 1%. So the average worker out there says, yeah, I hear the Democrats, they're this, they're that. Do they understand what I am going through? (08:26–08:34)

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