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“I’ve pulled myself up by the bootstraps so many damn times that I ripped them off.”

This single mom works two jobs and has a bachelor’s degree. She wants lawmakers to know poverty is not about being lazy. pic.twitter.com/UfhSP9zSkn

— AJ+ (@ajplus) February 8, 2020

For GOPers who spent this week mocking the poor w/“bootstrap” jokes, why don’t you listen to Ms. Hutchinson’s testimony & give one damn reason why we shouldn’t have an accurate poverty line in this country.

Unless of course you were talking w/o paying attn to the actual hearing. https://t.co/4YCypOfxpB

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 9, 2020