Bernie Sanders: “60% of our people are living paycheck to paycheck.”

“The working class of this country is angry, and they have a reason to be angry. We are living in an economy today, Donna, where the people on top are doing phenomenally well. While 60% of our people are living paycheck to paycheck. 25% of elderly people are trying to get by on $15,000 a year or less. We have the highest rate of childhood poverty on of almost any major country on earth.” (00:13–00:18)

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