Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders is a senator from Vermont. Sanders was first elected to the Senate in 2007 and was re-elected in 2012 and 2018. The senator also ran an unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2016, losing the Democratic primary to Hillary Clinton. From 1991 until 2007, he was the representative of Vermont’s At-Large District of the House of Representatives. Sanders was the mayor of Burlington from 1981 to 1989. He received a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Chicago. In 2019, he announced he was running for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in April 2020.
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H-1B guest workers are “being employed as dog trainers, massage therapists, cooks, and English teachers.”
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Inflation-adjusted weekly wages “are lower today than they were 50 years ago.”
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“CEOs are now making 400 times more than their average worker.”
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“Tens of millions of Americans live in communities where they cannot find a doctor while others have to wait months to be seen.”
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"We pay by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, in some cases 10 times more than the people of any other…
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“We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.”
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In the first three quarters of 2022, “the railroad industry made $21 billion in profits, provided $25 billion in stock buybacks and dividends” and CEOs…
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"The pharmaceutical industry has 1,400 lobbyists on Capitol Hill right now trying to stop" Medicare drug price negotiation.
“It is a result of the $300 per month that working parents are now receiving for their young children that we have reduced childhood poverty…
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“It has been estimated that only 12% of workers in businesses that are likely to stay open during this crisis are receiving paid sick leave…