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Robert Reich: Fighting the Bullies (Corporate and Otherwise)

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Supply Side Economics Is Synonymous With Neoliberalism

The typical worker in the United States has not seen adjusted for inflation. The ratio of CEO pay to the pay of the typical worker went from about 20 to 1 in the 1960s when I began looking at these kinds of things to now 320 to 1 in large companies. And you get in almost every facet of American life, this widening gap. Young people today see a world in which there's a shrinking middle class and they worry.

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