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A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class.

Marcy Kaptur

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Marcy Kaptur
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: June 17
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U.S. Representative
Urban Planner
Toledo
Ohio
Marcia Carolyn Kaptur
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