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On the recordJune 18, 2013
We understand--and this is terribly important as well in this debate--real funding, counting inflation and counting population growth, is significantly less than it was in the 1990s.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

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Sanders highlights the decline in real funding for senior programs since the 1990s.

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