Bernie Sanders: “Working class people die at a significantly younger age than…”

“I am the chairman or the former chairman of the Health Education Labor Committee. And what we have worked on and understand that one of the reasons that Working class people die at a significantly younger age than the elderly has to do with diet. Working people, low income people, cannot afford the decent quality food that their kids and the whole family need.” (26:39–26:48)

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