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Bernie Sanders: “Today in America, we got 800,000 people who are homeless.”

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

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But somehow or another, despite an hour and a half of talk, not one word about prescription drugs. But it's not only health care that he forgot to talk about. Today in America, we got 800,000 people who are homeless. We have over 20 million people spending more than 50% of their limited incomes on housing. We have a major housing crisis in Vermont, California, all over this country. (31:03–31:09)

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