US Senator Sanders challenges Bezos, Amazon on automation’s job impacts
By: Greg Bensinger; Reuters SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 28 (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders on Tuesday called on Amazon.com (AMZN.O), opens new tab founder Jeff Bezos to account for what the Vermont independent said were hundreds of thousands of potential lost jobs due to automation. “If Amazon succeeds on its massive automation plan, it will have a profound impact on blue-collar
Sanders warns of authoritarianism after Trump deploys national guard to LA
By: Maya Yang; The Guardian Senator says the future of the US ‘rests with a small number of Republicans in the House and Senate who know better’ Bernie Sanders warned of the US’s slide into authoritarianism following Donald Trump’s decision to deploy the national guard to Los Angeles over the city’s protests against federal immigration raids. Speaking to CNN on Sunday,
‘We Have a Better Idea’: Sanders Unveils College for All Act as Trump Targets Higher Education
By: Jake Johnson; Common Dreams “Instead of increasing the cost of college in order to give more tax breaks to billionaires,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders, “we are going to make public colleges and universities tuition-free.” As U.S. President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans move to gut federal student aid programs to help fund tax cuts for the rich, Sen. Bernie
Sen. Bernie Sanders raises alarm on cost of health care in Vermont and nationwide
By: Olivia Grieger; VTDigger Congress’s proposed changes to Medicaid policies and a state insurer’s potential rate hikes would further stress a system in crisis, the Senator said in a Monday press conference. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., joined a group of state legislators, health care officials and advocates in Burlington Monday morning to raise the alarm on what they called Vermont’s
Sanders on GOP Medicaid cuts: ‘Thousands and thousands of low-income and working people will die’
By: Filip Timotija; The Hill Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) warned during a recent interview that the proposed Republican cuts to Medicaid will end up causing “thousands and thousands” of low-income and working-class people’s deaths. Citing estimates from the Congressional Budget Office, Sanders said more than “13 million Americans are going to lose their health insurance. And then on top of that,
Trump administration cut $2.7 billion in NIH research funding through March, Senate committee minority report says
By: Jacqueline Howard; CNN A Senate committee report by minority staff, and obtained by CNN, slams the Trump administration for terminating some funding for research, firing thousands of federal workers and removing certain scientific data from government websites. The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee’s minority staff report, scheduled to be released Tuesday and authored by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont,
