Political Quotes

“all across our country--in Vermont, in Illinois, in California--all across this country, people are asking a very simple question. That question is, How does it happen that in the midst of the extraordinary wealth that exists in our country--how does it happen that so many people continue to hurt financially and struggle desperately to keep their heads above water economically? Today, despite unemployment being relatively low, some 40 million Americans continue to live in poverty. We don't talk about poverty very much here in the Senate, but we have 40 million Americans living in poverty. Many of them are struggling to adequately feed their kids. Many of them are forced to go, despite working, to emergency food shelters just to stay alive. Despite the United States having a GDP--gross domestic product--of more than $20 trillion, we in this country embarrassingly continue to have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on Earth. We don't talk about that either. Children are obviously the future of America, and we continue to have one of the highest rates of childhood poverty of any major country, and that includes 29 percent of African-American children who live in poverty. How does it happen that in a so-called booming economy--and we hear from President Trump every other day about how the economy is booming-- the bottom 40 percent of our population does not have $400 in cash in order to address a financial emergency?…”