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Alexandria Ocasio Cortez Net Worth

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez net worth
Net Worth$100,000
Full NameAlexandria Ocasio Cortez
Date of Birth/AgeOctober 13, 1989 (age 29)
Source of wealthPolitician, Activist
Country of originU.S.
State/City of originThe Bronx, New York City
Last Updated2019

Net Worth

Although Ocasio-Cortez is currently net worth a mere 100 thousand dollars, that net worth is expected to grow significantly before her freshman term is complete. Her net worth is calculated based on the fact that she has not yet finished her first term as Congresswoman.

When Ocasio-Cortez completes her first year as a Congresswoman, she can be expected to have a net worth of at least 174 thousand, because that is the yearly salary of a member of Congress.

 

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Ocasio-Cortez was sworn into the House of Representatives on January 3, 2019. As a member of the House of Representatives, she is guaranteed to at least two years at her current salary.

After she has served two years, she will be up for another election. By the end of her term, she will have earned more than 300 thousand dollars.

If Ocasio-Cortez is elected to a second term, her net worth could grow to more than half a million dollars. This is a significant increase from the economic situation that the Congresswoman was facing at the very beginning of her term.

When v first came to Congress, she has only 7 thousand dollars in her savings account.

The limited savings that Ocasio-Cortez had at the beginning of her term are consistent with the $27,000 annual income that she reported having in 2017 as a bartender. This net worth came from her work as a bartender, the job that Ocasio-Cortez held before she was elected to Congress.

 

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Introduction

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez net worth is 100 thousand dollars. Considering that many of Ocasio-Cortez’s political discussions and potential political policies center around the discussion about her net worth, her salary has been subjected to much scrutiny by the public and by her opponents in Congress. As she continues her political career, her net worth is expected to grow. As that salary increases, the criticism over her net worth and political ideals will likely continue to be under heavy criticism by those who disagree with her policies.

Early Life

Ocasio-Cortez was born on October 13, 1989. Both of her parents were Catholic and were of Puerto Rican heritage. While Ocasio-Cortez’s mother was born in Puerto Rico and later came to the United States, Ocasio-Cortez’s father was born in The Bronx.

The neighborhood that Ocasio-Cortez grew up in was approximately 50 percent immigrant. As Ocasio-Cortez would go on to seek public office, she would believe that she would be responsible for representing that particular population.

 

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As a child, Ocasio-Cortez grew up speaking both English and Spanish. She continues to be a fluent Spanish speaker.

Ocasio-Cortez has had a thorough education. She graduated from Yorktown High School, where she was active in studying microbiology. Her high school studies allowed her to earn a scholarship to Boston University.

While Ocasio-Cortez was attending college, her father passed away. In order to support herself financially while in college, she took a job with ICE. As she worked with ICE and the families impacted by the organization, she began to form opinions against the organization that she would later use in her political policies and campaign.

 

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Personal Life

Although Ocasio-Cortez is very private about her life, she has shared that the two most important people in her life are her boyfriend, Riley Roberts, and her boyfriend, Blanca Ocasio-Cortez.

Blanca has been a constant part of Ocasio-Cortez’s life. Ocasio-Cortez told Marie Claire that her mother was a truly inspiring figure in her life because she “did whatever she needed to do, for me.”

Riley Roberts has also shown up to be a truly supportive figure in Ocasio-Cortez’s life. He is seen in the documentary, “Knock Down the House,” filming Ocasio-Cortez when she submits her Congressional candidacy. He is also seen clapping his hands and discussing her political viewpoints.

 

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As for Riley Roberts’ career, he works as a web developer. He graduated from Boston University. In an interview with Vogue, Ocasio-Cortez mentioned that they met at a gathering hosted by the Dean of students.

Before Ocasio-Cortez moved to Washington, D.C, the couple lived in an apartment in The Bronx. Roberts, who is originally from Arizona, moved to The Bronx to live with Ocasio-Cortez.

Career

During college, Ocasio-Cortez had her first brush with politics when she began working for the campaign for Senator Ted Kennedy

After graduating from Boston University with a dual degree in international relations and economics, she initially began her dream of working as a community organizer in The Bronx.

But with her mother facing foreclosure and mounting financial concerns in her own life, Ocasio-Cortez began to take other jobs in order to pay her bills and help her mother. Some of these jobs demanded 18-hour shifts.

 

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In 2016, Ocasio-Cortez added to her workload when she began to work as an organizer for Senator Bernie Sanders as Sanders ran in the Democratic primary. The following year, Ocasio-Cortez began her own campaign in order to unseat Democratic Congressman Joe Crowley.

At present, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez net worth reached $100,000.

During her campaign, Ocasio-Cortez focused on grassroots organizing attempts, along with a powerful social media presence. Her platform included all of the following

  • Reforming the criminal justice system
  • Tuition-free colleges
  • Universal Medicare for all
  • Eliminating ICE

In June of 2018, Ocasio-Cortez was able to successfully defeat Crowley, who had served 10 consecutive terms in Congress. Five months later, Ocasio-Cortez would make history when she was elected to Congress only a month after her 29th birthday. She was the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.

 

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Interesting Facts

During her campaign, Ocasio-Cortez was endorsed by a number of politically progressive organizations, including

  • Brand New Congress
  • Black Lives Matter
  • Justice Democrats
  • MoveOn
  • Democracy for America

Upon arriving in Congress, Ocasio-Cortez immediately joined forces with Senator Ed Markey to sponsor a bill that would be called the Green New Deal. The Green New Deal was designed to create jobs, boost the economy and address climate change

The Green New Deal was most famously associated with Ocasio-Cortez, as she took to Twitter often to defend it from her political opponents.

Although the Green New Deal gained the support of Greenpeace, the Sunrise Movement, and many Democratic senators, no Republicans expressed support for the Green New Deal.

 

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Highlights

Ocasio-Cortez first rose to prominence in 2018, when she ran against a well-known and powerful Democratic senator in the primaries. Upon winning the party’s nomination, she went on to continue to fight for her progressive platform as she faced her Republican opponent.

In a stunning victory, Ocasio-Cortez managed to be sworn-in as the youngest woman ever elected to Congress at the age of 29.

Since being sworn in, she has achieved both national fame and criticism for sticking to the policies that she campaigned for, and she continued to support her beliefs on her social media account.

Although she is not as rich as many members of Congress, her current wealth and fame are much higher now than they were during her days as a bartender in The Bronx.

 

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Favorite Quotes from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

“By not taking money from lobbyists, by taking money from working-class people, we can legislate for working-class people.”
“I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education — that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society. You can call that whatever you want to call that.”
“We’re not scared of you. We’re laughing at you!”
“Women in leadership face more scrutiny. Period.”
“I believe that in a modern, moral, and wealthy society, no person in America should be too poor to live.”

 

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Tips for success from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

1. Giving back to your community can benefit both you and your community in the long run. Ocasio-Cortez could have chosen to go anywhere other than her home neighborhood of The Bronx after graduating from college. Instead, she chose to return to her home and continue to fight for its improvement. That desire to fight has ultimately allowed her to achieve success as their representative.

2. Always keep your early supporters close to you. Both Ocasio-Cortez’s mother and her boyfriend have been supporters of Ocasio-Cortez since before the representative gained the national spotlight. This support has been essential in Ocasio-Cortez running her campaign, and both early supporters were able to be there with Ocasio-Cortez as she was sworn into duty in Congress.