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Rescue aid package may reduce inequality, but for how long?

by Paul Wiseman
| March 15, 2021 12:03 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats have celebrated President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan as a blow against one of America’s most entrenched economic woes: The vast inequality that divides the richest from the rest — a gap made worse by the viral pandemic.

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