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When the average Social Security benefit is $1328 a month, and more than one-third of our senior citizens rely on Social Security for Virtually all of their income, our job is to expand benefits, not cut them.
Bernie Sanders
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Bernie Sanders
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: September 8
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