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Bernie Sanders: “Our K through 12 schools are struggling and higher education…”

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

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FULL SPEECH: Bernie Sanders rallies with Graham Platner and Troy Jackson in Orono, Maine

Published | Video Starts at 19:46

Wrong. Child care system is broken. It's dysfunctional. It is unaffordable. And the workers who work with the kids are paid abysmal wages. Right now in America, Our K through 12 schools are struggling and higher education is unaffordable. It is not a radical idea to say that if a young person wants to go to college, that that person should not have to go bankrupt or deeply in debt in order to afford a higher education. (19:46–19:53)

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Asserts that the U.S. education system faces significant challenges and costs.

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