"The best known socialist in America"

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37. Some details showing some of Sanders' work then was for the government:

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/bernie-sanders-vermont-119927

His work in the 1960s:

He bounced around for a few years, working stints in New York as an aide at a psychiatric hospital and teaching preschoolers for Head Start, and in Vermont researching property taxation for the Vermont Department of Taxes and registering people for food stamps for a nonprofit called the Bread and Law Task Force.

Note that the Head Start and property taxation jobs were for the government. The work for the nonprofit was to register people for food stamps. And we don't know who ran the psychiatric hospital where he worked as an aide.


The 1970s:

He worked some as a carpenter, although “he was a shitty carpenter,” Bloch told me. “His carpentry,” Morrisseau said, “was not going to support him, and didn’t.”

He worked as a freelance writer, putting intermittent pieces in the low-budget Vermont Freeman, a Burlington alternative weekly called the Vanguard Press and a glossy, state-supported magazine called Vermont Life.

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He started a business out of 295 1/2 Maple, making low-budget films about people, places and events in Vermont and New England history that he felt were getting short shrift in the region’s schools. American People’s Historical Society, he called it — “a newly formed nonprofit organization producing audio-visual from an alternative point of view,” he wrote in a pamphlet he distributed.

Note that one of the magazines he wrote for was state-supported.


He was broke through the 1970s, putting most of his time into failed campaigns for the Liberty Union party.

Until he finally got lucky enough, by 10 votes, to win that mayor's race in Burlington.