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Bernie Sanders: “60% of our people live in paycheck to paycheck in America.”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 01:42

What is going on? And I think the answer is not complicated. Working people all over this country are looking around them and they understand increasingly that the economy is totally rigged. 60% of our people live in paycheck to paycheck in America. People are struggling to put food on the table, pay for rent or mortgage, pay for health care, put aside a few bucks for a dignified, secure retirement, worried about their ability to send their kids to college. (01:42–01:48)

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Asserts that 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.

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