Here’s why U.S. Senator Michael Bennet is running for President of the United States (2020).
Rising to the Challenge
Building Opportunity in America & Restoring Integrity to Our Government
Opportunity. We are the first generation of Americans at risk of handing our children less opportunity, not more.
Today, we are reaping the whirlwind of four decades of economic immobility. Nine out of 10 Americans have not received a decent pay raise over this period, even as costs continue to rise. No matter how hard they work, most Americans cannot afford a middle-class life. Shamefully, 10 million of America’s children live in poverty without any viable means of escape. Meanwhile, the top 0.1 percent (a mere 160,000 households) hold 20 percent of the wealth. That is almost exactly the same amount of wealth held by the “bottom” 90 percent — or nearly 145 million families.
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