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Winner-Take-All Politics
- How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
- Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
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We all know that the very rich have gotten a lot richer these past few decades while most Americans haven't. In fact, the exorbitantly paid have continued to thrive during the current economic crisis, even as the rest of Americans have fallen behind. Why do the "have-it-alls" have so much more? Lots of so-called experts claim to have solved this great mystery, but no one has really gotten to the bottom of it---until now.
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