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Bernie Sanders: “If they do not have access to healthcare, if they do not have access to education, if they do not have access to jobs…”

On the recordNovember 19, 2013
If they do not have access to healthcare, if they do not have access to education, if they do not have access to jobs and affordable housing, we end up paying not only in terms of human suffering and the shortening of life expectancy, but in actual dollars.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Senator Sanders emphasizes the financial costs of poverty and lack of access to services.

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