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The stock market has seen a robust recovery after an initial pandemic dip. The wealthiest Americans are the ones profiting.

Use every lever to advance environmental justice and spur economic opportunity. it is absolutely pivotal these piece of legislation have climate components and they will to address the climate crisis. he's not waited for that, he's taken action of his own accord. >> one more, one of the critical -- in the package, discuss this a couple times in the last couple weeks. given the scale of the ramp up from opposition to proposal you laid out, in terms of push back or concerned about the future of that proposal? >> it should not be lost on anyone that the latest opposition to the proposals and the ...

At 35.8%. what is all of this wealth being shifted away from our middle class do to the overall health of our economy? >> yeah, eamon, thank you so much for inviting me. and thank you especially for bringing up this really critical topic. it doesn't get enough attention. economic inequalities i think as you know has been on a dramatic increase over the last 50 years and it's at the root of so many of our problems. right now in congress we're watching a sausage get made, but i hope people will understand this sausage is really important. it's not going to solve the problem, but we need to do th...

The wealth of black americans only up $1.5 trillion. and for hispanic families it is up just $600 billion. conversations around inequality usually center on the top 1% or even the ultrarich, 0.1%. but my next guest says it's actually the upper middle class, those in the next 9.9% that are really drivers of equality in this country. joining me now is matthew stewart, the author of a new book. matthew, it is great to jow. this is a book that caught my attention this week. it's been making a lot of headlines, and i wanted to talk to you about it because we're seeing it in realtime play out. accor...

I think that's what it's all about at the end of the day for the business owner. i support the workers, and what we're doing as democrats is in the infrastructure bill we have significant pro-labor policies, president biden has supported that, and we're going to go ahead and pass pro-labor legislation so that we can make sure that we legislate in the law better working conditions and wages and opportunities for workers across this country. >> congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz, thank you fur your time and insights, appreciate it. not every group is recovering from the pandemic equally, p...