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Nearly half in Congress are millionaires, study finds

Widening wealth gap separates voters, legislators

Largely insulated from the country’s economic downturn since 2008, members of Congress - many of them among the “1 percenters’’ decried by Occupy Wall Street protesters - have gotten much richer even as most of the country has become much poorer in the past six years, according to an analysis by The New York Times based on data from the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit research group.

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