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

“People on top, more money than they could spend in a thousand lifetimes. But then there's another America, and that's an America that you know. That's the America where, in the richest country on Earth, 60% of our people are living paycheck to paycheck. You all know what living paycheck to paycheck is about. I grew up in a family that live paycheck to paycheck in a rent controlled apartment.” (1:17:30–1:17:36)

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