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video The top 1%

  • 02.08.2011
  • By aljazeera.net
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With 1% of Americans controlling 40% of the country's wealth, we examine the gap between the rich and the rest.
The richest one per cent of Americans earn nearly a quarter of the country's income and control an astonishing 40 per cent of its wealth.
Inequality in the US is more extreme than it has been in almost a century - and the gap between...

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