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Class War (chart)

This article appeared in the March 31, 2008 edition of The Nation.

March 13, 2008

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Click the image to see a chart detailing the trade-offs the war has imposed on one working-class city--Cleveland, Ohio--and comparing those figures with the bounty the war has bestowed on the CEOs of the top military contracting companies.

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