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Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Living In Poverty

AlterNet: WATCH: Bernie Sanders Comforts Sobbing Iowa Woman Struggling to Live on Minimum Wage - At an Iowa event, Sanders asked audience members to speak out about what it was like to live on less than $12,000 a year. By David Edwards
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2 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

You have to be there to understand it. At 66 I know what she is feeling ( fear) all the time. I worked from the time I was 12 till I was 60 had a heart attack almost died. I fought my way back to health through a program of intense work outs for yrs. and am recovered now. That 's great , but try and get a job at 66. Right, it's not happening and since I live in a dead zone economically ( South NJ) opening a small business ( this area was voted the worst place in America to open a sm. biz) you see the dilemma. My wife and I will eventually have to pull up our roots and move and we will. This is America today for tens of millions of us. It's called a lol a recovery.

11:16 AM
Jim Sande said...

Well I'm glad to read that you are recovered from the heart attack. I remember when that happened and I applaud your efforts to get your health back.

No I understand the money issues like everybody, all too well. We live very modestly. I still work part time and my wife full time but we will in all likelihood have to move as well. The thing of it is rents are going sky high too, so we're stuck between a rock and a hard place. The woman in this clip has it a lot worse than most, but she is trying. They have to raise that damn minimum wage to something livable. Look at the price of food, it's so high and it's no wonder people are obese because the cheap food is junk. So you can't afford decent food, get sick, and can't afford the medical care even if you happen to be insured!!

12:42 PM

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