On the recordSeptember 12, 2011
Do you think, when children in Denmark have a 3.6 percent rate of poverty, compared to 21 percent plus in the United States, our poor kids are freer than those enslaved children in Denmark?
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Sanders questions the notion of freedom in relation to poverty rates in Denmark and the U.S.
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