Sanders` early life in Brooklyn taught lessons, some tough
(WorldNews Politics)

NEW YORK (AP) - Back on Brooklyn College`s red brick campus this winter to launch his second bid for the White House, Bernie Sanders set aside rhetoric for a few minutes to acknowledge the neighborhood where he grew up. The irascible Vermont senator recalled that his father had come to Brooklyn as an immigrant `without a nickel in his pocket.` Arguments over money in the family`s 3½-room apartment, within walking distance of the campus, taught Sanders early on what it meant to live `paycheck to paycheck.` `I know where I came from,` Sanders told a crowd of supporters, contrasting his New York story with President Donald Trump`s privileged upbringing in neighboring Queens, `and that is...