This kind of inequality - a level that we havenβt seen since the Great Depression - hurts us all. When middle-class families can no longer afford to buy the goods and services that businesses are selling...it drags down the entire economy from top to bottom. America was built on the idea of broad-based prosperity... Thatβs why a CEO like Henry Ford made it his mission to pay his workers enough so that they could buy the cars he made. Itβs also why a recent study showed that countries with less inequality tend to have stronger and steadier economic growth over the long run. β¨ Barack Obama's Remarks on the Economy in Osawatomie, Kansas, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 6, 2011.
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