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TexasTowelie

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Wed Feb 20, 2019, 04:47 AM Feb 2019

Warren: Government should value people more than corporate profits

Speaking at the Springs Preserve in Las Vegas Sunday afternoon, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who recently joined the 2020 presidential race, recalled the first time she learned what a mortgage was when she was just in middle school.

Her father had a heart attack that kept him from working and her mother, who was hellbent on not losing the house, mustered up enough courage to get her first job outside of the home — a minimum wage job.

“That minimum wage job saved our house,” Warren said. “At that point, a minimum wage job in America was enough to support a family of three. Today, a minimum wage job in America won’t keep a momma and a baby out of poverty. It’s wrong. That’s why I’m in this fight (to become president).”

In her first visit to Nevada since launching her campaign, Warren spoke to a crowd of about 500 people about how she is campaigning to address the fact that “America isn’t working for working families any longer.”

Read more: https://www.nevadacurrent.com/2019/02/18/warren-government-should-value-people-more-than-corporate-profits/

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Warren: Government should value people more than corporate profits (Original Post) TexasTowelie Feb 2019 OP
That's the winning message!! InAbLuEsTaTe Feb 2019 #1
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