One in five Texas children live in poverty. But one of our own residents became the world's first trillionaire. Those three men now own more wealth than the entire middle class. The top 1% has put the American dream behind a paywall. Fifty years ago, a corporate lawyer named Lewis Powell circulated a memo around D.C. a blueprint for how corporations could amass political power, reverse the gains of the Great Society and the New Deal and rig the system for themselves. (05:45–05:52)
CLAIM
Asserts that the wealthiest 1% have made achieving the American dream financially inaccessible.
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