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‘My Back Pages’: Paulson on Income Inequality
November 2, 2011
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PaulM
Posted in Culture, Current Events, History, Lowell, Politics, Election 2012
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In the category of “The More Things Change”—While cleaning in the home office last weekend, I found a batch of old news clippings, including one from the Christian Science Monitor of August 3, 2006. In his first big speech, Bush administration Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson listed growing income inequality as one…
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