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Bernie Sanders: “We have more income and wealth inequality than we have ever…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 05:46

Like what we see around Social Security, Medicare, more what we see in Europe. Where are you on that? Well, what I know is that today We have more income and wealth inequality than we have ever had in the history of this country. Much worse than the so called Gilded Age. And I know that at a time when the top 1% of owns more wealth than the bottom 93%, when people like … (05:46–05:52)

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Asserts that current income and wealth inequality in the U.S. is at an all-time high.

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