Sanders gets Finance perch to push Social Security, Medicare expansion, tax reform
By: Alexander Bolton; The Hill Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who supports expanding Social Security and Medicare and raising taxes on the wealthy, will get a seat on the Senate’s powerful Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over those big issues. Sanders supports increasing Social Security benefits for existing recipients by $2,400 a year and increasing cost-of-living adjustments to keep up with rising
Bernie Sanders: Amazon “Accepts Worker Injuries…as the Cost of Doing Business”
By: John Nichols; The Nation Jeff Bezos is pocketing hundreds of billions while Amazon warehouses record injuries at 30 percent above the industry average. Jeff Bezos is getting exponentially richer, while the employees who create his wealth are reporting debilitating injuries and extremely high rates of musculoskeletal disorders. This juxtaposition has led to rising anger on the part of Amazon workers,
Senate probe finds Amazon manipulated workplace injury data
By: Caroline O’Donovan, Lauren Kaori Gurley; Washington Post The company discouraged injured workers from seeking outside medical care and disregarded internal safety recommendations, a Senate panel led by Bernie Sanders reports. A sweeping congressional investigation into worker safety at Amazon found that the nation’s largest online retailer manipulated data on warehouse worker injuries and disregarded internal research on improving safety. The
Bernie Sanders Warns U.S. is Becoming an Oligarchy
By: Peter Wade; Rolling Stone “We are moving rapidly into an oligarchic form of society … We can’t go around the world saying, ‘in Russia, Putin has an oligarchy.’ Well, we got our oligarchy here, too” Sen. Bernie Sanders is ringing the alarm that the United States is “rapidly” becoming an oligarchy run by billionaires out to enrich themselves. “We are
Bernie Sanders Is Leading a Bold New Effort to Block Arms Sales to Israel
By: John Nichols; The Nation The senator has more allies than ever in his fight to hold Israel accountable and save lives in Gaza. For the better part of a year, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has been calling on Congress to block additional military aid and arms sales to Israel in order to save lives in Gaza. In January, he responded
Bernie Sanders Says Democrats Have Lost Their Way
By: Michael Barbaro, Sen. Bernie Sanders; New York Times An interview with the Vermont senator on the fallout of the election defeat. The Democratic Party is sifting through the rubble of its sweeping election loss and trying to work out what went wrong. In an interview, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont discusses his diagnosis and how to chart a path back
