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Bernie Sanders: “60% of people are living paycheck to paycheck, living under…”

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

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Bernie Sanders Discusses Economic Inequality and Critiques Trump Policies

Published | Video Starts at 00:22

No. Look, Caitlin, I think one of the great political crises we face is we really don't appreciate the pain that ordinary people are feeling. You are living ostensibly in the richest country in the history of the world. 60% of people are living paycheck to paycheck, living under extraordinary stress. trying to put food on the table, pay their rent, worried what happens if their landlord raises the rent, worried what happens if somebody gets sick and they can't afford to go to the doctor? (00:22–00:29)

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Asserts that 60% of people in the U.S. live paycheck to paycheck.

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