i mean, really rich. but they wanted to be even richer. and they didn t care who got hurt. so every year, bit by bit, they lobbied washington and paid off politicians to tilt the system just a little more in their direction. and year by year, bit by bit, more of the wealth and opportunity went to the people at the very top. and that is how today in the richest country in the history of the world, tens of millions of people are struggling to get by. since the early 1970s, adjusted for inflation, wages in america have barely budged. but the cost of housing has gone up nearly two-thirds. the cost of college has nearly tripled. and 40% of americans couldn t find $400 to cover an emergency.
about the danger of division. how bigotry and race baiting are used to keep black americans divided from white americans so that rich americans can keep picking all their pockets. that play week has been around forever. white people against black people, middle class families against new immigrant families. the story is the same. the rich and powerful use fear to divide us. we re done with that. bigotry has no place notice oval office. this is who we are. we come from different backgrounds. different religions. different languages. different experiences.
right know, giant corporations in america have too much power. they just roll right over everyone else. we need to put power back in the hands of workers. make it quick and easy to join a union. unions built america s middle class. it will rebuild america s middle class. make american companies accountable for their actions. raise wages by putting workers in those board rooms where the real decisionings as are made. break up monopolies when they choke off competition. take on wall street banks so the big banks can never again threaten the security of our economy. when giant corporations and
children s lives and our grandchildren s lives just as surely as the fight that began in these streets more than a century ago. because the man in the white house is not the cause of what is broken. he is just the latest and most extreme symptom of what s going wrong in america. a rigged system that props up the rich and powerful and kicks dirt on everyone else. so once he s gone, we can t pretend that none of this ever happened. it won t be enough to just undo the terrible acts of this administration. we can t afford just to tinker around the edges of a tax credit
saying dream big, fight hard and win. she is joining the fight for the white house 2020. quoting her, she says, i m not afraid of a fight, not even a hard fight and she is joining ago crowded democratic field already. let s go to m.j. lee who was at that event. huge crowd there and she made it very clear what she will be fighting for. she will be fighting to keep the powerful, hold them accountable. and she also said they would be thinking of children across america, fighting for them and their possibilities to dream and deal big. that s right, fred. it s very loud here because warren has just finished. she has officially announced she is rubbing for president of the united states. if you were listening carefully to the speech, you may have lost count of the number of times she used the word fight. i can tell you this is going be to the backbone of her candidacy and her campaign. this fundamental idea that when