Talarico: ‘For Too Many Texans, the American Dream Has Become an American Nightmare’

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TALARICO: "For too many of our neighbors, for too many Texans like Augusta, the American dream has become an American nightmare. It is too expensive to buy a home. It’s too expensive to get married and have kids. It’s too expensive to retire comfortably. People are working hard every day, they're playing by the rules, but those rules of today weren’t written for us. They were written for billionaires. We can’t afford a home, but Jeff Bezos has at least a dozen. We can’t afford to fill up our tank, but Mark Zuckerberg is launching helicopters off his mega yacht. One in five Texas children live in poverty, but one of our own residents became the world’s first trillionaire.”