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Hoarding The American Dream

The top 20 percent of this country, not just the top one percenters, is leaving everyone else behind. We’ll talk with the author of "Dream Hoarders."

This program originally broadcast on June 21, 2017.

The top 20 percent of this country, not just the top one percenters, is leaving everyone else behind. We’ll talk with the author of “Dream Hoarders.”

We all know about the one percent — America’s ultra-wealthy whose wealth has exploded

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