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Tax Bill 2017

What the tax bill means for economic mobility

by Kai Ryssdal and Daisy Palacios

Dec 22, 2017

It's "going to increase our black-white wealth gap," says professor Dorothy Brown of Emory University.

From left, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, a Republican from Utah, arrive at a press conference after the Senate passed the tax reform bill today in Washington, D.C.

Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images

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