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Bernie Sanders: “There are 20 million people who are spending 50% of their…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 10:28

Hugely expensive kids are going deeply into debt to get a higher education. Kind of that system is broken. What about housing? Well, we've got 800,000 people who are homeless, but that's only half the problem. There are 20 million people who are spending 50% of their limited incomes on housing. People. I talked to people in Vermont trying to bring in a teacher from out of state. They signed up a good teacher. Teacher couldn't come because the cost of housing was so high. (10:28–10:34)

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Asserts that 20 million people spend half their income on housing.

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