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Sanders Addresses Poverty in South Carolina

Press Release

Date: Feb. 24, 2016
Location: Columbia, SC
Issues: Unemployed and Low-Income Minors and Children

Bernie Sanders on Wednesday detailed proposals to reduce poverty in the United States and he attributed the increase in part to a 1996 welfare reform bill which he opposed at the time as "an assault on the poor, women and children, minorities and immigrants."

"The United States today has the highest poverty rate of nearly any major country on earth because almost all of the new wealth and income is going to the people on top," Sanders said at the news conference. "The poor remain invisible, powerless, not heard from. Most don't even vote," he added.


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