Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was elected to Congress in November 2018, but it was three months before she started earning the six-figure salary of U.S. legislators.

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Before that, the Bronx-native and democratic socialist worked as a bartender and waitress.

In fact, her campaign website is clear about her working-class background and how income inequality affected her life growing up.

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Her previous job, at The Coffee Shop in Manhattan, earned her only $3,588 in 2018, according to her 2019 financial disclosure report for the House. She also earned $21,875 from her election campaign.

According to her financial disclosure report, Ocasio-Cortez also has a checking account, brokerage account and a 401(k) plan through the National Hispanic Institute. All three accounts reportedly have between $1,001 and $15,000 each.

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Ocasio-Cortez also reported federal student loan debt between $15,001 and $50,000.

In 2018, CNBC reported that Ocasio-Cortez had less than $7,000 in savings after she was elected because she had stopped working while she focused on her campaign.

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The outlet also reported that four years after her father died, she and her family sold their Yorktown, N.Y., home for $355,000 in 2016.

Today, most of the 30-year-old politician’s money comes from her congressional salary of $174,000 a year, according to the House of Representatives.

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