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Getting by. >> reporter: 5:30 a.m. lucy wilson gets her own kid ready before he heads off to teach two dozens more. 7:00 a.m., the school day begins. >> i used the play school and boss my little cousins around and play teacher. >> reporter: miss wilson tea teaching first grade where her starting salary is $35,000 a year. in the nine years teaching, she makes only a little more. >> can you live on a teacher's salary? >> living at home with my parents, yes. not living at home with my parents, i have done it but it was very, very strict budget. simple things, how am i going to make sure what my c...

Revenue including the windfall from the trump tax plan that the bank is earning. >> i read the lobbyist's letter to mean that he wants to basically sit you down and explain to you how important jpmorganchase is to your congressional district, something that big business has been doing to members of congress for a couple of centuries now. >> yeah, that's going to be a hard pass. i don't need to be condescended to. i want to work on these problems. i'm really serious about the difficulties that families face in make ends meet. it's what i studied before i came to congress and it's what i think a...

>> yeah, that's going to be a hard pass. i don't need to be condescended to. i want to work on these problems. i'm really serious about the difficulties that families face in make ends meet. it's what i studied before i came to congress and it's what i think about every day. so i don't need to be pandered to. i don't need to be told that they have employees. i know that. i talk to my constituents. i know i have folks that work at jpmorganchase. i have a chase branch right next to the grocery store i go to with my kids. i want to hear about -- from mr. dimon, who wants to wear the mantle of lea...

Spectrum of right, center left, center, we see a mixture where the categories don't capture what's going on on the ground, kitchen table issues. people are trying to figure out how they're going to make their house note, make ends meet, pay for college. we know it's not simply policies of the republican party. there have been democrats consistent and complicit in producing a reality that have made their kitchen table issues an issue. so they want something different. so that debate that you imagine, that we just imagined, will consist of or ought to consist of new ideas. how are you going to a...

Other co-workers during this time. they still have to deal with all their stuff back here trying to get a new home to move to. trying to rebuild whatever they had. dealing with insurance claims. dealing with the government being shut down and not getting a paycheck. trying to reach out to financial institutions. these are all the things that just regular everyday americans that are public servants are having to deal with. >> charles's wife is 8 1/2 months pregnant. he tells me she's had to go back to work and take another job. not that she wanted to but because they really needed the extra inc...