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Bernie Sanders, Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate, is heading to Minneapolis on Sunday 

 at the Minneapolis American Indian Center. It's the first public campaign rally or event among declared candidates in Minnesota this cycle. 

 spoke to Sanders about his planned visit and his platform that focuses on income inequality.


"We are the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, yet we have the highest rate of childhood poverty, we have real unemployment at 11 percent, we have millions of young people who are leaving school deeply in debt and hundreds of thousands who can't afford to go to college," Sanders said. "The middle class for 40 years has been disappearing. That is not what America is supposed to be about and that is what has got to change."

FactCheck.org called some of Sanders' inequality claims 

 to bring in more revenue from profitable corporations and the nation's wealthiest, make public universities and colleges 

In order to expand social security benefits and the program's solvency, Sanders said he would raise the taxable income cap from $118,000 to $150,000. The tuition break would come from a tax on Wall Street stock transfer fees.

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