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    The federal government is the largest low-wage employer in the country -- and that needs to end

    Moyers & Company
    September 27, 2013 2:35AM ET
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    Americans are coming to face the hard reality that they live in a new Gilded Age, with inequality at levels not seen since before the Great Depression. Even worse: Uncle Sam is subsidizing this lopsided economy. The federal government is, indirectly…


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