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Democrats Deserted Working Poor: Bishop William Barber on Healthcare, Living Wages, Voting Rights

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"Why is it that the issues that most of the public agrees with — healthcare, living wages, voting rights, democracy — why is it that those issues weren't more up front?" We speak to Bishop William Barber about Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's failed election campaigns, Donald Trump's election as president and the urgent need to unite the poor and working class. Barber is the national co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign, president and senior lecturer at Repairers of the Breach and a co-author of the book _White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy_. He urges the Democratic Party to recenter economic security and poverty alleviation in its platform and draws on historical setbacks for U.S. progressive policies to encourage voters to "get back up" and "continue to fight."

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