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Trump's new chief economist is known for arguing that US inequality isn't an issue

Trump's new chief economist is known for arguing that US inequality isn't an issue
- He is also an inequality skeptic. “Today we hear that the gains from economic growth accrue to the highest-income earners while the standard of living of the poor and middle America stagnates and the gap between the richest and the poorest grows ever wider,” wrote Hassett in the Wall Street Journal in 2012, “That portrait of the country is wrong.”

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