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

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

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Published | Video Starts at 18:15

You're not going to hear it much in the corporate media and you're not going to hear it much from the halls of Congress. But we have an unprecedentedly unfair distribution of wealth and income. Today, the top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 93%. And if you think that is crazy, you got an economy today where one man, Mr. Musk, Owns more wealth himself than the bottom 53% of American households. (18:15–18:24)

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Asserts that the wealthiest 1% own more than the bottom 93% combined.

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