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One Year Later

What the tax bill has to do with U.S. wealth inequality

Hosted by Jamil Smith Dec. 20, 2017
The richest one percent of Americans control about 38 percent of the wealth in the United States. Analysts report that the Republican tax bill, very soon to be the Republican tax law, will only exacerbate the problem. How will this break down on racial and ethnic lines? Who benefits and who doesn’t?

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New tax bill, old inequalities

The Republican tax bill offers most American taxpayers a cut in the short-term. But analysts claim that it will only worsen America’s income inequality crisis, one that is...

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Jamil Smith

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Quinn O'Toole, Katie Cooper, Yael Even Or, Gideon Brower

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