Sen.Sanders: A Progressive Budget Blueprint

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“We must not be content with an economic reality in which the middle class of this country continues to disappear.”
- Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)

CHILDREN IN POVERTY
16
million
Sixteen million children in America (21.8% of all kids in America) lived in poverty in 2012.

LOWER WAGES
24
years
The average middle class American family made less in 2012 than it did 24 years before in 1989.

MASSIVE INEQUALITY
40
percent
One family, the Walton family of Wal-Mart, is worth more than the bottom 40 percent of Americans.