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Bernie Sanders: “20% of our seniors trying to get by on $15,000 a year or…”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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LIVE: Bernie Discusses the Future of American Politics at the National Press Club

Published | Video Starts at 06:18

We have children in America who are going hungry because among other things, we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on earth. We are 20% of our seniors trying to get by on $15,000 a year or [less]. And yet you got billionaires getting richer and richer while ordinary people are struggling. And it's not just an unfair economy that we're talking about. (06:18–06:25)

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Asserts that 20% of American seniors live on $15,000 a year or less.

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