Now that Democrats have power, we have to be bold in a way we have not seen since FDR in the 1930s.
The first order of business: A new COVID relief bill with $2,000 payments for every working class adult.
Donald Trump’s “brilliant” idea: using flu vaccine to defend against the coronavirus. He really is a dotard. The degree of idiocy is striking.
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The billionaire class wants us to lose.
The drug industry wants us to lose.
The military-industrial complex wants us to lose.
Private insurance companies want us to lose.
Wall Street wants us to lose.
But when people stand together and vote, we will win. #VoteForBernie
If you can vote, show up today for those who can't—
The disenfranchised, who deserve their rights restored.
The undocumented, who deserve a path to citizenship.
Our kids, who deserve a healthy and habitable planet.
In 1965 the CEO-to-worker pay ratio was 20:1.
Last year, it was 287:1.
Workers aren't struggling because they're not working hard enough.
They're struggling because more and more wealth is going to the people on top.
We're going to reverse that and give workers a raise.
A woman I met in Cedar Rapids pays $94,000 a year for her husband's Alzheimer's treatment.
Taking care of a loved one when they are sick is already difficult enough.
You shouldn't have to worry about going bankrupt at the same time. That is why we fight for Medicare for All.
When workers try to unionize, what do private employers do?
➡️ 75% hire consultants to run anti-union campaigns
➡️ 63% force employees to hear anti-union propaganda
➡️ 54% threaten workers
We are going to end the attacks on workers' right to organize. #LaborDay
Every person in this country must have the right to:
-A decent job and a living wage
-Quality health care
-A complete education
-Affordable housing
-A clean environment
-A secure retirement
It's time for a 21st Century Economic Bill of Rights.
There is no “middle ground” when it comes to climate policy. If we don't commit to fully transforming our energy system away from fossil fuels, we will doom future generations. Fighting climate change must be our priority, whether fossil fuel billionaires like it or not.
Tens of thousands of Americans every year get criminal records for possessing marijuana.
Meanwhile ZERO major Wall Street executives went to jail for destroying our economy in 2008 as a result of their greed, recklessness and illegal behavior.
Unacceptable.
We must follow cities and states across the country and raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour and index it to median wage growth thereafter. Doing so would give more than 40 million low-wage workers a raise, more than 25 percent of the U.S. workforce.