Today's news from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.):
Fast Food Workers: Sen. Bernard Sanders is praising the thousands of fast-food workers around the country who staged one-day strikes last week to protest low wages. St. Louis, Kansas City and Detroit were among the cities that saw pickets by workers at McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Popeye’s and Long John Silver’s restaurants as part of a campaign to double their hourly wages to $15 an hour. Sanders wants to raise the national minimum wage to $10.10 an hour from $7.25, where it’s been since 2009, The Associated Press, Burlington Free Press, Rutland Herald, Times Argus, Bennington Banner, Brattleboro Reformer, and WCAX-TV reported.
Republicans Want to End Minimum Wage: Sen. Sanders is talking about something that few other politicians will mention. Republicans aren’t just opposed to the minimum wage. They want to abolish it. In June, during a committee hearing, he got Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander to admi...t that he supports abolishing the minimum wage … While Republicans are plotting to abolish it, 71 percent of Americans support raising the minimum wage, Jason Easley wrote for Politicus.
Democrats Tack Left on Economy: Two major economic factors have fueled a return of populism. For starters, the recovery from the 2008 financial meltdown has been uneven. From 2009 to 2011, the wealthiest 1 percent saw their incomes grow by 11.2 percent, while incomes shrunk by 0.4 percent for the other 99 percent of the country. Second, deficit pressures have been temporarily relieved. “We have cut the deficit in half,” Sen. Sanders told the Fiscal Times. “Put that on the front pages of the paper. That’s not insignificant ... We’ve made good success. We’ve got to continue doing it. But now the focus has to be creating millions of jobs.”
Korean War: A memorial made of Vermont granite was unveiled Saturday in Manchester to remember 92 Vermonters killed in action and another 20 still missing in Korea 60 years after the war ended, the Rutland Herald reported. Sam Haskins, the veterans advocate for Sen. Sanders, read a letter from the senator after sharing some memories of his brother, Howard Haskins, a Korean War veteran. “We have a duty to ensure the sacrifices of these service members are never forgotten,” the letter said.
Continue reading here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/
Today's news from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.):
Fast Food Workers: Sen. Bernard Sanders is praising the thousands of fast-food workers around the country who staged one-day strikes last week to protest low wages. St. Louis, Kansas City and Detroit were among the cities that saw pickets by workers at McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Popeye’s and Long John Silver’s restaurants as part of a campaign to double their hourly wages to $15 an hour. Sanders wants to raise the national minimum wage to $10.10 an hour from $7.25, where it’s been since 2009, The Associated Press, Burlington Free Press, Rutland Herald, Times Argus, Bennington Banner, Brattleboro Reformer, and WCAX-TV reported.
Republicans Want to End Minimum Wage: Sen. Sanders is talking about something that few other politicians will mention. Republicans aren’t just opposed to the minimum wage. They want to abolish it. In June, during a committee hearing, he got Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander to admi...t that he supports abolishing the minimum wage … While Republicans are plotting to abolish it, 71 percent of Americans support raising the minimum wage, Jason Easley wrote for Politicus.
Democrats Tack Left on Economy: Two major economic factors have fueled a return of populism. For starters, the recovery from the 2008 financial meltdown has been uneven. From 2009 to 2011, the wealthiest 1 percent saw their incomes grow by 11.2 percent, while incomes shrunk by 0.4 percent for the other 99 percent of the country. Second, deficit pressures have been temporarily relieved. “We have cut the deficit in half,” Sen. Sanders told the Fiscal Times. “Put that on the front pages of the paper. That’s not insignificant ... We’ve made good success. We’ve got to continue doing it. But now the focus has to be creating millions of jobs.”
Korean War: A memorial made of Vermont granite was unveiled Saturday in Manchester to remember 92 Vermonters killed in action and another 20 still missing in Korea 60 years after the war ended, the Rutland Herald reported. Sam Haskins, the veterans advocate for Sen. Sanders, read a letter from the senator after sharing some memories of his brother, Howard Haskins, a Korean War veteran. “We have a duty to ensure the sacrifices of these service members are never forgotten,” the letter said.
Continue reading here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/
Fast Food Workers: Sen. Bernard Sanders is praising the thousands of fast-food workers around the country who staged one-day strikes last week to protest low wages. St. Louis, Kansas City and Detroit were among the cities that saw pickets by workers at McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Popeye’s and Long John Silver’s restaurants as part of a campaign to double their hourly wages to $15 an hour. Sanders wants to raise the national minimum wage to $10.10 an hour from $7.25, where it’s been since 2009, The Associated Press, Burlington Free Press, Rutland Herald, Times Argus, Bennington Banner, Brattleboro Reformer, and WCAX-TV reported.
Republicans Want to End Minimum Wage: Sen. Sanders is talking about something that few other politicians will mention. Republicans aren’t just opposed to the minimum wage. They want to abolish it. In June, during a committee hearing, he got Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander to admi...t that he supports abolishing the minimum wage … While Republicans are plotting to abolish it, 71 percent of Americans support raising the minimum wage, Jason Easley wrote for Politicus.
Democrats Tack Left on Economy: Two major economic factors have fueled a return of populism. For starters, the recovery from the 2008 financial meltdown has been uneven. From 2009 to 2011, the wealthiest 1 percent saw their incomes grow by 11.2 percent, while incomes shrunk by 0.4 percent for the other 99 percent of the country. Second, deficit pressures have been temporarily relieved. “We have cut the deficit in half,” Sen. Sanders told the Fiscal Times. “Put that on the front pages of the paper. That’s not insignificant ... We’ve made good success. We’ve got to continue doing it. But now the focus has to be creating millions of jobs.”
Korean War: A memorial made of Vermont granite was unveiled Saturday in Manchester to remember 92 Vermonters killed in action and another 20 still missing in Korea 60 years after the war ended, the Rutland Herald reported. Sam Haskins, the veterans advocate for Sen. Sanders, read a letter from the senator after sharing some memories of his brother, Howard Haskins, a Korean War veteran. “We have a duty to ensure the sacrifices of these service members are never forgotten,” the letter said.
Continue reading here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/
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