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Howard Gleckman

Marco Rubio tax plan shows challenge of GOP wage-stagnation fight

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In the traffic jam that is the Republican presidential race, Sen. Marco Rubio stands out โ€” and not just for his youth and blue-collar, Cuban-American biography. Rubio has issued the most detailed economic agenda to aid the middle class, anchored by a book on countering the wage stagnation that has exacerbated inequality between the rich and the rest. Rivals Jeb Bush, Chris Christie and others have similarly decried the growing gap between the haves and have-nots, signaling that Republicans are…

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