Bernie Sanders says 12 million have slipped from middle class into poverty ...
Bernie Sanders says 12 million have slipped from middle class into poverty ... We checked one of them -- on how many Americans have slipped into poverty since 2000. In a tweet sent on July 18, 2011, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said that "since 2000, nearly 12 million Americans have slipped out of the middle class and into poverty ...