This was years ago, I was sitting in front of a payday loan company,

and I needed money for a bill, and I still had to pay rent.

A single parent not getting child support.

And I just remember just thinking, why do I have to live like this?

Who is speaking for people like me?

Who's speaking for the single parents that's all here doing our best?

And I'll never forget that moment of not wanting to walk into those doors

with my two children sitting in the back seat.

And I want to be that person that now in this position,

that other people are looking to to say, yes, she sees me, she hears me,

she is listening to my situation.

Hello and welcome to Wise This Happening With Me, your host, Chris Hayes.

You know, the United States Congress, the legislature for the American state,

two bodies, a house in the Senate, which are representative bodies that represent the people in the

United States. Obviously, the president is the lone figure that represents the totality

of all Americans. But as a representative body, like Congress and the United

Senate are not particularly representative. That's been true for a very long time, obviously,

for a very long time. It was only white men. The racial and gender diversity has improved,

particularly the last like 20 years or so, but still it's way, way, way, way, way more white men

than the country as a whole. But it's also not particularly representative in terms of

economically, in terms of class and education, things like that. I mean,

and that's not crazy. A lot of legislatures around the world are like that, but you've got a

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