Sanders writes: "Think about this: Income per person is twice as high as it was 40 years ago. Our economy is twice as productive. But half of our people are living paycheck to paycheck."
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We Must Stand Up and Fight for the Working Class
25 August 19
hink about this: Income per person is twice as high as it was 40 years ago. Our economy is twice as productive. But half of our people are living paycheck to paycheck.
Why is that? Because the richest 1 percent captured 45 percent of all new income over 40 years. And the median hourly wage went up two dollars—just two dollars—over 40 years. This is what we mean when we talk about a rigged economy.
The ruling class of our country will have to start paying taxes—not evade them. The billionaire families who own this country will have to pay their employees a living wage and not rely on taxpayers to fund nutrition assistance to workers making poverty pay. And if corporate America wants a dime’s worth of federal contracts, they will have to make do with hiring workers here in America and letting them unionize, instead of outsourcing those jobs overseas at starvation wages.
If the working class of this country is going to live with dignity, we will need to stand up together and fight for it. That's what our political revolution is all about.
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