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Over the last 30 years, emergency call volume has tripled, yet firefighter recruitment and retention has become increasingly more difficult, severely affecting the safety of communities WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Monday introduced legislation to address the major staffing crisis affecting both career and volunteer fire departments. Recruiting and retaining both volunteer and career firefighters has

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, today will hold a committee hearing at 2:30 p.m. ET to consider the nomination of the Honorable Shalanda D. Young of Louisiana to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the nomination of the Honorable Nani A. Coloretti of California to be Deputy

U.S. Fire Administrator Dr. Lori Moore-Merrell joined Sanders to speak on the staffing crisis Burlington, Vt., Jan. 29 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Saturday, joined by U.S. Fire Administrator Dr. Lori Moore-Merrell, held a virtual town meeting with Vermont firefighters and EMS providers to discuss the serious staffing crisis facing fire and EMS departments in Vermont and in other

Update: Panelists from Fair Haven, Walden, Bristol, Thetford, Whiting, and Hartford will be joining Sanders, including the President of the Professional Firefighters of Vermont and Miss Vermont, a volunteer firefighter. Burlington, Vt., Jan. 27 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), joined by U.S. Fire Administrator Dr. Lori Moore-Merrell, will hold a virtual town meeting with Vermont firefighters and EMS providers on

Citing outrageous costs and safety concerns around Alzheimer’s drug, Sanders calls for prescription drugs developed at taxpayer expense to be reasonably priced WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 – As deliberations continue around a Medicare premium increase that would hike health care costs for millions of seniors across the country – largely triggered by an expensive new Alzheimer’s drug that has raised serious

Despite being one of the nation’s largest retailers – that raked in billions during the pandemic – more than 60% of Kroger workers don’t make enough money to pay basic expenses; 68% are food insecure; 44% are unable to pay rent; 39% are unable to pay for groceries; and 14% are currently homeless or have been in the past year.