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We are in a state where 36% of working people are working poor. and were 18% poverty. and mary b. is my great friend and she was there more than 2,000 people gathered today, because its almost as though they want to just kick people when theyre down. all of the things that would help the working poor, they have gone after, and then tom tillis tried to say hes a moderate. theyre going after earned income tax credit. theyve gone after unemployment. theyve taken away medicaid expansion. theyve atta...

Few, while masses are made poor somewhere more vulnerable day by day, by policies enacted by superrich and uncaring wealthy people. its time we called it for what it is. its not partisanship. its the provinciale practices of a part that could care less about the middle class, the working class, the working poor, and the poor. and when we wake up and realize this truth will all be better off as a nation so this is what i want you to do. get up out of your seats right now. go to your windows, open...

Social dissolution we see today. >> it seems, michelle, an emerging talking point from the right is to attack the war on poverty. you know, medicaid, medicare, food stamps and head start. i mean, who will this appeal to other than a very small group attacking the great society programs that millions of americans benefited from. >> well, look, this is kind of the latest incarnation of the war on the welfare queens back in reagans day. the idea that, if you have a social safety net, it encourages ...

With this and give people a chance to make it. >> maria, you know, when we look at some of these facts about minimum wage, americans overwhelmingly support raising the minimum wage 71% favor an increase in the federal minimum wage rate from $7.25 to $9. proposals to increase the minimum wage have been introduced in 30 other states, and these wage increases would pump an additional $22 billion into the economy. i mean, it just make sense socially. it makes sense economically, it makes sense polit...

Over 58% of working poor to actually middle class. thats significant, because all of a sudden, as the comingman stated, all of a sudden theyre thinking not about how to make ends meet, but also how do they actually have upward mobility so they can invest in other things, not just putting food on the stable and makes ends meet. thats huge. at the end of the dpa, we have to take a step back and saying why are we working every single day? are we working so that were not suffering and making sure th...

>> yeah. we talk about the working poor, people who work and still cant afford benefits. the working poor, are still us folks who dont have at least six months money in the bank. i would be in trouble myself. it could happen to me. >> yeah. >> it could happen to you. we are all just, you know, one step away. >> good morning, miss sidney. >> good morning, my darling. how are you? >> well have you sit right in the back by miss sidney. >> tell me about you. >> im a pbx operator. medical assistant. ...

Talk to you about that. >> yes, we are talking about the working poor and people who need to work and still cant afford the benefits, and the working poor are still us folks who dont have at least six months money in the bank. i would be in trouble myself. it could happen to me. >> yeah. >> it could happen to you. we are all just, you know, one step away. >> good morning. >> good morning, my darling. how are you? >> we will sit right out back of miss sidney. >> tell me about you. >> im a pbx ope...

Well we have finally found a political party. they go under the name of republican, but theyre actually extremists who are willing to do just like that. attack unemployment. attack earned income tax credit. attack the working poor. attack the sick. and attack teachers and public education. and attack voting rights. after they finer doing that. then they say, lets give people more guns. >> well, i think -- i think you nailed it right there. reverend barber, you have been working, organizing long ...

They were going to put in one seventh each year, growing, growing -- >> thats the key, the social contract. the promise was, yes, its going to be tough, youll pay more and get less in benefits, but you saw the tape, it will be there, i wont do what everyone else has done, which is essentially rob peter to pay paul, i wont rob from the future to pay the present. >> but thats exactly what hes done. and it doesnt just end with this shorting the pension payments. the reality is that the governor als...

Saw the tape, it will be there, i wont do what everyone else has done, which is essentially rob peter to pay paul, i wont rob from the future to pay the present. >> but thats exactly what hes done. and it doesnt just end with this shorting the pension payments. the reality is that the governor also today, his treasurer said that they were going to make toughs to new jersey transit, which is a tax on the working poor. hes going to delay or skip allowing for the property tax credits, which, by the...