Why Sanders Really Isn’t Bernie-One-Note

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Be prepared for the next great transfer of wealth. Buy physical silver and storable food.

wallstreetexaminer.com / by Alan Tonelson • February 21, 2016

This is a syndicated repost courtesy of RealityChek. To view original,click here. Reposted with permission.

Truth in advertising: I have a lot of respect for Bernie Sanders and very little for Hillary Clinton. Still, here’s some data that I believe even many Clinton supporters will agree undermines her claim that her rival for the Democratic presidential nomination is a “single-issue candidate”whose obsessive focus on economic inequality and its roots in a money-drenched political system is ignoring crucial issues of racial and gender discrimination.

The data come from the government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the private Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and they make clear the harm done to African Americans by decades-long American trade policies that the former Secretary of State has strongly backed for most of her career, and the Democratic Socialist Senator from Vermont has consistently opposed.

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