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Everyone gets one vote. But between elections, money can buy access, expertise, organization and the ability to keep fighting long after most Americans have gone back to work.
When Wealth Becomes Power Money can buy a house, a business or a stock portfolio. It can also buy something harder to measure: Access.
America created extraordinary wealth over the past generation. But wages, homes, stocks, retirement accounts and businesses did not grow — or get distributed — the same way. Here’s how owning assets increasingly separated those building wealth from those trying to catch up.
American family wealth has nearly quadrupled since 1989. But who owns it — and how concentrated has that wealth become?