Bernie Sanders Calls on Moderna CEO to Testify on Proposed Vaccine Price Hike

By Liz Goodwin; Washington Post The senator plans to use a Senate committee to highlight what he calls a ‘morality crisis’ in the pharmaceutical industry   Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) plans to grill the CEO of Moderna about his reported plans to raise the price of the coronavirus vaccine in a Senate hearing next month that Sanders hopes will convince the company to

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The Push for a $60K Base Teacher Salary Gains Steam as Bernie Sanders Signs On

By: Madeline Will; Ed Week Sen. Bernie Sanders will soon introduce legislation to pay teachers a minimum of $60,000 a year, complementing similar efforts in the House as the conversation about low teacher wages picks up steam. Sanders, the independent from Vermont who is the chairman of the Senate’s health, education, labor, and pensions committee, announced his plans to introduce the Pay

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In New Role, Sanders Demands Answers from Starbucks’ Schultz

By: Mary Clare Jalonick; Associated Press As Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders settles into his new role as chairman of the Senate committee that oversees health and labor issues, he says some corporations “should be nervous.” And the longtime liberal crusader’s first target is Howard Schultz, the interim CEO of Starbucks who has aggressively fought his workers’ efforts to unionize. Sanders and the

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Debt Ceiling Fight: Senator Bernie Sanders on Cuts to Social Programs

By: Fortesa Latifi; Teen Vogue  Republicans have “been after Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid for a long, long time.” The first major fight of the 118th Congress has arrived on Capitol Hill. It’s about the debt ceiling, with some Republicans threatening to default on the United States national debt in order to score political concessions from Democrats. If it feels

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