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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

Last night's Democratic Party presidential debate was the first to include former New York

City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Commentators this morning disagree on who won and who lost. A Fox writer

considers Elizabeth Warren the only winner, while a CNN columnist thinks everyone won but Bloomberg

and Amy Klobuchar.

As I watched the debate, I thought that the participation of these six people in a campaign

to be president of the United States says something important about the United States.

Mike Bloomberg was born to a dairy company bookkeeper and his wife.

His father never earned more than $6,000 a year.

He worked his way up through Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Business School.

In 1981, he and a team built a machine that provides real-time market data and other financial analytics to Wall Street firms.

His company earned $10 billion in 2018.

His net worth is now estimated at $61.8 billion.

Bernie Sanders was born in Brooklyn to a paint salesman and his wife.

After serving as mayor of Burlington, Vermont, and a U.S.

congressman and then a senator, his net worth is estimated at $2 million. Much of his earnings

come from books. He and his wife own three homes. Elizabeth Warren was born to a U.S. Army

flight instructor, who became a salesman and then a maintenance man for an apartment

building. She started waiting tables at the age of 13. According to Forbes, she and her husband now

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