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Webb said that when he was a college graduate in the 1960s, the average CEO earned 20 times what the average worker made; today, that CEO’s paycheck is 400 times that of the average worker. “The growing divide along class lines that we are seeing is not good for anyone,” including the wealthiest Americans, Webb said. “It is not healthy in a democracy such as ours to have such a wide gap between rich and poor.”
Webb said that he and several other Senate progressive and populist Democrats—Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Jon Tester of Montana, Byron Dorgan of North Dakota and Bernie Sanders of Vermont—are meeting on a regular basis “so we can talk about economic fairness for the people doing the hard work of this society.”
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This is great, but it would be even better if they could get more Dems to join their discussions.