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Bernie Sanders: “They're struggling to send their kids to college.”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 18:01

People are struggling, are they not? Yeah, they're struggling to pay for food, put food on the table for their kids. They're struggling for the outrageously high cost of health care. They're struggling to send their kids to college. They are struggling for retirement. There was once a time if you work for a large company, you, young ones don't know this, but if you work for a large company, you had what's called a defined benefit pension plan. (18:01–18:04)

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Asserts that people are struggling with the cost of higher education.

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