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Robert Reich explains why you won’t get rich

The former labor secretary says Washington's fiscal priorities are dangerously out of whack

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Former labor secretary Robert Reich says, “The idea that most Americans have been living beyond their means is pure fantasy perpetrated by a small minority at the top whose means have gone through the stratosphere.”

By Alex Halperin

Alex Halperin is news editor at Salon. You can follow him on Twitter @alexhalperin.

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