{"id":92293,"date":"2017-09-22T12:40:53","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T12:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/democrat-warren-confronted-over-her-one-percent-status.html"},"modified":"2017-09-22T12:40:53","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T12:40:53","slug":"democrat-warren-confronted-over-her-one-percent-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/democrat-warren-confronted-over-her-one-percent-status.html","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Warren confronted over her &#8216;One Percent&#8217; status"},"content":{"rendered":"<picture class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/images.foxnews.com\/content\/fox-news\/politics\/2017\/09\/22\/democrat-warren-confronted-over-her-one-percent-status\/_jcr_content\/par\/featured_image\/media-0.img.jpg\/735\/414\/1506076711762.jpg?ve=1tl=1, \/\/a57.foxnews.com\/images.foxnews.com\/content\/fox-news\/politics\/2017\/09\/22\/democrat-warren-confronted-over-her-one-percent-status\/_jcr_content\/par\/featured_image\/media-0.img.jpg\/1470\/828\/1506076711762.jpg?ve=1tl=1 2x\"\/><!-- mobile.png, mobile@2x.png (retina size) from dialog --><source media=\"(min-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/images.foxnews.com\/content\/fox-news\/politics\/2017\/09\/22\/democrat-warren-confronted-over-her-one-percent-status\/_jcr_content\/par\/featured_image\/media-0.img.jpg\/931\/524\/1506076711762.jpg?ve=1tl=1, \/\/a57.foxnews.com\/images.foxnews.com\/content\/fox-news\/politics\/2017\/09\/22\/democrat-warren-confronted-over-her-one-percent-status\/_jcr_content\/par\/featured_image\/media-0.img.jpg\/1862\/1048\/1506076711762.jpg?ve=1tl=1 2x\"\/><!-- tablet.png, tablet@2x.png (retina size) from dialog --><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/images.foxnews.com\/content\/fox-news\/politics\/2017\/09\/22\/democrat-warren-confronted-over-her-one-percent-status\/_jcr_content\/par\/featured_image\/media-0.img.jpg\/931\/524\/1506076711762.jpg?ve=1tl=1text=big-top-image\" alt=\"U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., participates in a Senate committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Oct. 6, 2015.\"\/><!-- place largest non-retina size here --><\/picture>\n<p>\n                                    U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., participates in a Senate committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Oct. 6, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>                                        \u00a0(Associated Press)<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">A Boston radio host called out U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren this week for criticizing America&#8217;s &#8220;One Percent,&#8221; noting that her net worth ranks her among the class she consistently attacks. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">\u201cHow can you rail against the One Percent, when in a sense you are and live like the One Percent?,\u201d Jeff Kuhner asked Warren on Monday in the hallway of the WRKO&#8217;s studio, referring to the class of America&#8217;s wealthiest people.<\/p>\n<p>The Massachusetts Democrat responded with a brief history of her modest childhood, growing up with little money and how the opportunities in America allowed her to build her career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had opportunities because America invested in kids like me,\u201d Warren said, adding that those same opportunities are often no longer available to many people born in circumstances similar to hers as a youth. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Kuhner continued to press the senator, accusing her of hypocrisy for her political rhetoric against the One Percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re part of the One Percent and you rail against the One Percent, you don\u2019t see the hypocrisy there?\u201d Kuhner asked.<\/p>\n<p>Warren has made a lucrative career in consulting for insurance companies and big banks, the <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Daily Caller<\/a> reported. Estimates of the senator&#8217;s net worth range from $3.7 million to $10 million, <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">CNN reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/feeds.foxnews.com\/~r\/foxnews\/politics\/~3\/eUns-3AWAek\/democrat-warren-confronted-over-her-one-percent-status.html<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., participates in a Senate committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Oct. 6, 2015. \u00a0(Associated Press) A Boston radio host called out U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren this week for criticizing America&#8217;s &#8220;One Percent,&#8221; noting that her net worth ranks her among the class she consistently attacks. \u00a0 \u201cHow can you rail against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-92293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}