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Video: Bernie Sanders 2013: In McDowell County, Poverty is a Death Sentence
When we talk about poverty, I think a lot of people say, "Well somebody is poor who maybe lives in inadequate housing and that's just too bad, or may not have a good automobile or may not even be able to go to college." All of that's true. But poverty, and the stress of poverty, is much, much more than that. In many ways in our country the stress of poverty is a death sentence.
