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Bernie Sanders: “Three people own more wealth than the bottom half of…”

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

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Bernie Sanders addresses Oxford on his book "It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism"

Published | Video Starts at 09:30

Because maybe the major crisis that we face is not all the crises we know, but the fact that we're not dealing with the crisis, we're shoving them aside. For particular reasons, any case, in America today, quite unbelievably, I think, and outrageously, Three people own more wealth than the bottom half of American society. The top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 92%. When I was growing up a few years ago in America, you know, George Washington's time, George and I worked … (09:30–09:35)

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Asserts that three individuals in the U.S. own more wealth than the bottom 50% of the population.

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