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Bernie Sanders: “When 60% of our people are living paycheck to paycheck, when…”

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

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And I'm going to be going around the country trying to do that, trying to get working people and young people, people of color, just the majority of the people, to stand up and say, you know what? When 60% of our people are living paycheck to paycheck, when 85 million people have no health insurance, you do not need to give tax breaks to billionaires and cut programs that working families desperately need. Let's focus on the needs of workers. What do we need to do? We need to raise the minimum wage to a living wage. You think Trump and the Republicans are going to do that? (09:13–09:28)

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Asserts that 60% live paycheck to paycheck and 85 million lack health insurance.

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