Massachusetts residents will be subsidizing LOW WAGE CASINO WORKERS as well!
Today's news from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.):
Starvation Wages: Responding to Sen. Sanders’ assertion that taxpayers subsidize Wal-Mart with Medicaid and food stamps for its underpaid workers, a spokesperson for the discount store told The Huffington Post that only 5 percent of its employees said in a 2005 survey that they used Medicaid. An internal memo from a Wal-Mart VP that same year, however, informed the board of directors that 46 percent of the children of Wal-Mart's 1.3 million U.S. employees were uninsured or on Medicaid.
USPS: Sen. Sanders is speaking out against a Postal Service bill that could end Saturday mail and door-to-door deliveries for homes and businesses. The measure introduced by Sens. Tom Carper and Tom Coburn, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is weaker than a bill that the Senate passed last year. Sanders is the sponsor of a competing measure with 28 co...sponsors. He maintains that his alternative would save more Postal Service jobs, WTOP-AM news radio in Washington, D.C. reported on Monday.
Prison Transfer: Eleven New England senators, including Sanders, objected to plans to turn a women's prison in Danbury, Conn. into a facility for men, according to an Associated Press report in the Time Argus, Rutland Herald and Brattleboro Reformer. In a letter to the director of the federal Bureau of Prisons, the senators said the plan would leave the region without any prison spaces for females, creating unnecessary hardship for inmates' families.
Student Loans: As a member of the Senate education committee, Sen. Sanders cited Congressional Budget Office projections that interest rates would hit 7.25 percent for undergraduate loans in five years under a bill awaiting President Obama’s approval. By 2018, graduate loans would go up to 8.8 percent and parents would be charged 9.8 percent on loans for their children to attend college, according to the analysis by the non-partisan agency that provides economic data for Congress. “The delegation is correct to give fail marks to this plan,” the Rutland Herald said in an editorial.
Continue reading here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/
Today's news from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.):
Starvation Wages: Responding to Sen. Sanders’ assertion that taxpayers subsidize Wal-Mart with Medicaid and food stamps for its underpaid workers, a spokesperson for the discount store told The Huffington Post that only 5 percent of its employees said in a 2005 survey that they used Medicaid. An internal memo from a Wal-Mart VP that same year, however, informed the board of directors that 46 percent of the children of Wal-Mart's 1.3 million U.S. employees were uninsured or on Medicaid.
USPS: Sen. Sanders is speaking out against a Postal Service bill that could end Saturday mail and door-to-door deliveries for homes and businesses. The measure introduced by Sens. Tom Carper and Tom Coburn, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is weaker than a bill that the Senate passed last year. Sanders is the sponsor of a competing measure with 28 co...sponsors. He maintains that his alternative would save more Postal Service jobs, WTOP-AM news radio in Washington, D.C. reported on Monday.
Prison Transfer: Eleven New England senators, including Sanders, objected to plans to turn a women's prison in Danbury, Conn. into a facility for men, according to an Associated Press report in the Time Argus, Rutland Herald and Brattleboro Reformer. In a letter to the director of the federal Bureau of Prisons, the senators said the plan would leave the region without any prison spaces for females, creating unnecessary hardship for inmates' families.
Student Loans: As a member of the Senate education committee, Sen. Sanders cited Congressional Budget Office projections that interest rates would hit 7.25 percent for undergraduate loans in five years under a bill awaiting President Obama’s approval. By 2018, graduate loans would go up to 8.8 percent and parents would be charged 9.8 percent on loans for their children to attend college, according to the analysis by the non-partisan agency that provides economic data for Congress. “The delegation is correct to give fail marks to this plan,” the Rutland Herald said in an editorial.
Continue reading here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/
Starvation Wages: Responding to Sen. Sanders’ assertion that taxpayers subsidize Wal-Mart with Medicaid and food stamps for its underpaid workers, a spokesperson for the discount store told The Huffington Post that only 5 percent of its employees said in a 2005 survey that they used Medicaid. An internal memo from a Wal-Mart VP that same year, however, informed the board of directors that 46 percent of the children of Wal-Mart's 1.3 million U.S. employees were uninsured or on Medicaid.
USPS: Sen. Sanders is speaking out against a Postal Service bill that could end Saturday mail and door-to-door deliveries for homes and businesses. The measure introduced by Sens. Tom Carper and Tom Coburn, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is weaker than a bill that the Senate passed last year. Sanders is the sponsor of a competing measure with 28 co...sponsors. He maintains that his alternative would save more Postal Service jobs, WTOP-AM news radio in Washington, D.C. reported on Monday.
Prison Transfer: Eleven New England senators, including Sanders, objected to plans to turn a women's prison in Danbury, Conn. into a facility for men, according to an Associated Press report in the Time Argus, Rutland Herald and Brattleboro Reformer. In a letter to the director of the federal Bureau of Prisons, the senators said the plan would leave the region without any prison spaces for females, creating unnecessary hardship for inmates' families.
Student Loans: As a member of the Senate education committee, Sen. Sanders cited Congressional Budget Office projections that interest rates would hit 7.25 percent for undergraduate loans in five years under a bill awaiting President Obama’s approval. By 2018, graduate loans would go up to 8.8 percent and parents would be charged 9.8 percent on loans for their children to attend college, according to the analysis by the non-partisan agency that provides economic data for Congress. “The delegation is correct to give fail marks to this plan,” the Rutland Herald said in an editorial.
Continue reading here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/
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