Bernie Sanders: “60% of our people [in the U.S.] living paycheck to paycheck.”

“These guys have jewelry worth millions of dollars. And yet our elderly people are trying to survive from 15, $20,000 a year. We have the highest rate of childhood poverty. 60% of our people [in the U.S.] living paycheck to paycheck. That's where we are in the economy right now. And let me tell you something, and I want everybody to pay attention to this, because we don't are not focusing on it enough.” (21:43)

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