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Segami

(14,923 posts)
Thu May 5, 2016, 01:58 PM May 2016

Bernie Sanders to Discuss POVERTY in America



PRESS RELEASE


Sanders to Discuss Poverty in America



MAY 5TH, 2016





KIMBALL, W. Va. – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday was in McDowell County, West Virginia, to meet at a food bank with people living in one of the worst pockets of poverty in the United States and to examine why 47 million Americans live in poverty in the richest nation on earth.

He will meet this morning with West Virginians at the Five Loaves & Two Fishes Food Bank, where Linda and Bob McKinney struggle to keep residents of the rural mountain county from going hungry.

The discussion is expected to focus on the urgent need to lift millions of Americans out of poverty and rebuild the middle class. Sanders will focus on how poverty can be a death sentence. In McDowell County, where deaths by suicide and from drug overdoses are among the highest in the state, men live on average to be only 64 years old. Sanders will contrast that to suburban Washington, D.C., just a six-hour drive away, where men in wealthy Fairfax County, Virginia, live on average until the age of 82. The average life expectancy for women in Fairfax County is 85, compared to just 73 for women in McDowell.

To read the senator’s prepared remarks, click here.

To read prepared remarks by panelists, click here.

To read Sanders’ interview on poverty in McDowell County with Steve Inskeep on NPR’s “MorningEdition” today, click here.

To read more in The Atlantic about poverty and mortality, click here.






https://berniesanders.com/press-release/19214/




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Bernie Sanders to Discuss POVERTY in America (Original Post) Segami May 2016 OP
"...And if we stand together,.. Segami May 2016 #1
Why? Since poor people don't vote. nt Jitter65 May 2016 #2
Because he cares. bunnies May 2016 #4
I think the point is ... polly7 May 2016 #5
i know you don't like it, but they count even when they don't vote Viva_La_Revolution May 2016 #7
They count for me but Bernie is the one dismissing them, he made that statement. nt Jitter65 May 2016 #8
His career directly contradicts your mischaracterization of his statement. hellofromreddit May 2016 #9
nice pretzel Viva_La_Revolution May 2016 #12
. bunnies May 2016 #3
what a sad a bleak picture he speaks to thebeautifulstruggle May 2016 #6
K&R for needed exposure /nt Dragonfli May 2016 #10
It is Sad benny05 May 2016 #11
 

Segami

(14,923 posts)
1. "...And if we stand together,..
Thu May 5, 2016, 01:59 PM
May 2016
"...men and women, gay and straight, black, white, Latino, Asian, and Native American, and say loudly and clearly that enough is enough! That this country belongs to all of us, not just a handful of billionaires, there is nothing that we cannot accomplish..."

- Bernie Sanders

polly7

(20,582 posts)
5. I think the point is ...
Thu May 5, 2016, 02:04 PM
May 2016
why don't poor people vote? Is it because they're working three jobs and can't get the time off? Maybe they don't have transportation or money to get there? Possibly, they can't afford to get a babysitter, hire a hospice worker to take over for a few hours, etc., etc., etc. That is the point he was making. Funny you missed it.

benny05

(5,322 posts)
11. It is Sad
Thu May 5, 2016, 04:59 PM
May 2016

Especially since no one has brought up the working poor since John Edwards. Obama and Clinton promised to talk about poverty as POTUS...and I guess with all of us possibly going into a ditch in fall 2008, somehow this issue got kicked down the road.

Thank you, Bernie. And yes, working poor often cannot vote because we don't make it easy for them to vote. Dems really need to do something about this.

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