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Vermont By the Numbers

Press Release

Date: June 1, 2007
Issues: Unemployed and Low-Income

Vermont By the Numbers -- 06/01/2007

Vermonters are better educated and better off than the average American, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, but the middle class is being squeezed, according to a new report by the Joint Economic Committee of Congress. The percentage of Vermonters living below the poverty rate increased more than 20 percent since President Bush took office. "In America today the middle class continues to shrink with millions of working families struggling to keep their heads above water," Senator Bernie Sanders said. "Congress must finally summon the courage to stand up to the wealthy and powerful, rescind the tax breaks President Bush provided for the upper 1 percent and adequately fund the needs of our children, seniors, veterans and the disappearing middle class."

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