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Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff

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The Morals of Religion in the United States

The bottom 10% of wage earners in the United States, that's 17 million people, are earning an average of $12.57 an hour. That would earn them about $25,000, which turns out to be the poverty line for a family of three. And if you think about the millions more that don't have a job for under different reasons, who are living on that amount of money or less? Then please keep in mind the Elon Musk's with their tens of billions and the Bill Gates and the Warren Buffets,. often a few miles away from the 15 million people.

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