A nation cannot survive with islands of prosperity and seas of despair. Professor Gabriel Zucman, and some of you may have read him in your class, has shown that Today's wealth concentration is at the highest it has ever been in our nation's history. Far higher than when I was teaching here just 10 years ago. Listen to this. About 19 billionaires have three. $3.4 trillion, the equivalent of 12.5% of all the goods and services that are produced in the United States. (28:57–29:03)
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Asserts that wealth concentration in the U.S. is at an all-time high.
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