Bernie Sanders
Must Read: More Than One in Five Worldwide Living in Extreme Poverty - Glenn Phelps and Steve Crabtree, Gallup: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/must-read/more-than-one-in-five-worldwide-living-in-extreme-poverty
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Today's news from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.):
NSA ‘Out of Control’: Sen. Bernie Sanders weighed in on the debate over Edward Snowden and privacy abuses by what he called an “out of control” National Security Agency. At a news conference Monday, Sanders criticized that the NSA’s method of collecting mass quantities of personal information about Americans. Sanders also said that the man who leaked NSA secret documents on surveillance operations provided the country with a great deal of information, but he said a decision to grant Edward Snowden amnesty should be left up to the legal system, WCAX-TV reported.
Early Childhood Learning: Gov. Peter Shumlin and members of the state's congressional delegation say a $37 million federal education grant is designed to ensure that all Vermont children will be ready to succeed when they get to school. Shumlin, Sen. Sanders, Rep. Peter Welch and a representative of Sen. Patrick Leahy said Monday the goal of the Early Learning Race to the Top Grant is to expand awareness of the importance of early education, increase participation in an early learning program and focus services on high-needs children, The Associated Press, WPTZ-TV, WCAX-TV and vtdigger.org reported.
Raise the Minimum Wage: “Not only would increasing the minimum wage boost the economy and narrow the gap between the rich and the poor, it would also reduce the deficit. Today, tens of millions of Americans working in Wal-Mart, McDonald’s, Burger King and other multi-national corporations are being paid wages so low that they need food stamps, Medicaid, public housing, and other forms of government assistance just to survive. In fact, American taxpayers are subsidizing the poverty-level wages of some of the largest and most profitable corporations in America,” Sen. Sanders wrote in an op-ed published by the Times Argus, Newport Daily Express and St. Albans Messenger.
USPS: Postal workers are giving it their all this holiday season … [but] are still under assault [by] … House members who want nothing more than to diminish the United States Postal Service to such an extent that it can be bartered off to the highest bidder ... The service could thrive if more elected officials followed the lead of” Sen. Sanders, Reps. Peter DeFazio and Mark Pocan “who have proposed and fought for smart reforms,” John Nichols wrote in The (Madison Wis.,) Capital Times.
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NSA ‘Out of Control’: Sen. Bernie Sanders weighed in on the debate over Edward Snowden and privacy abuses by what he called an “out of control” National Security Agency. At a news conference Monday, Sanders criticized that the NSA’s method of collecting mass quantities of personal information about Americans. Sanders also said that the man who leaked NSA secret documents on surveillance operations provided the country with a great deal of information, but he said a decision to grant Edward Snowden amnesty should be left up to the legal system, WCAX-TV reported.
Early Childhood Learning: Gov. Peter Shumlin and members of the state's congressional delegation say a $37 million federal education grant is designed to ensure that all Vermont children will be ready to succeed when they get to school. Shumlin, Sen. Sanders, Rep. Peter Welch and a representative of Sen. Patrick Leahy said Monday the goal of the Early Learning Race to the Top Grant is to expand awareness of the importance of early education, increase participation in an early learning program and focus services on high-needs children, The Associated Press, WPTZ-TV, WCAX-TV and vtdigger.org reported.
Raise the Minimum Wage: “Not only would increasing the minimum wage boost the economy and narrow the gap between the rich and the poor, it would also reduce the deficit. Today, tens of millions of Americans working in Wal-Mart, McDonald’s, Burger King and other multi-national corporations are being paid wages so low that they need food stamps, Medicaid, public housing, and other forms of government assistance just to survive. In fact, American taxpayers are subsidizing the poverty-level wages of some of the largest and most profitable corporations in America,” Sen. Sanders wrote in an op-ed published by the Times Argus, Newport Daily Express and St. Albans Messenger.
USPS: Postal workers are giving it their all this holiday season … [but] are still under assault [by] … House members who want nothing more than to diminish the United States Postal Service to such an extent that it can be bartered off to the highest bidder ... The service could thrive if more elected officials followed the lead of” Sen. Sanders, Reps. Peter DeFazio and Mark Pocan “who have proposed and fought for smart reforms,” John Nichols wrote in The (Madison Wis.,) Capital Times.
Continue reading here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/122413See More
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