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...Poverty in America today leads not only to anxiety, unhappiness, discomfort and a lack of material goods. It leads to death. Poverty in America today is a death sentence for tens and tens of thousands of our people.

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Bernie Sanders
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: September 8
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