M4A

There's got to be a better way. Former lib Dem until Bernie opened my eyes to the injustices of our current system. M4A,GND,BLM,cancel student debt,#notmeus

[M4A @rickh19]

#BecauseOfBernie

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

This level of inequality is not only unsustainable, it’s downright cruel.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers $15 an hour.”

What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”

Funny how that works.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

A federal judge has temporarily blocked Texas' drag ban. It would have taken effect tomorrow.

Republicans' sudden vendetta against drag queens is part of a broad, coordinated attack on the LGBTQ+ community, and it is a threat to all our civil rights.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Mark Cuban: Bailout Silicon Valley Bank TONIGHT
Feds: Approved

Lloyd Blankfein: Goldman Sachs needs $824 billion
Feds: Approved

Jamie Dimon: JPMorganChase needs $416 billion
Feds: Approved

Average Joe: My wife got cancer. Can we get Medicare?
Feds: We're broke.

[Pramila Jayapal @PramilaJayapal]

It’s time to overturn Citizens United and get dark money out of politics.

RT if you agree!

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Today is #HolocaustMemorialDay marking the 78th anniversary of Auschwitz-Birkenau's liberation and to remember the 6M Jews murdered by the Nazis alongside the 5M murdered from different minorities groups including Slavs, Roma, Black, disabled, LGBT+ and victims of all genocides

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

UPDATE: Union Pacific, one of the railroads that successfully fought off workers' demands for paid sick days, announced a record $7 billion profit. The company said it spent $1.7 billion more on stock buybacks in 2022 than on pay and benefits for all of its employees.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: Walmart is raising its minimum pay from $12 to $14 to better attract workers. Its average wage will rise to $17.50/hr.

The median Walmart associate now makes $24,960. CEO Doug McMillion made $25.7M, creating an astronomical CEO-to-worker pay ratio of 1029 to 1.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

This is not normal.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Federal minimum wage in:

2009: $7.25
2010: $7.25
2011: $7.25
2012: $7.25
2013: $7.25
2014: $7.25
2015: $7.25
2016: $7.25
2017: $7.25
2018: $7.25
2019: $7.25
2020: $7.25
2021: $7.25
2022: $7.25

The result: It's now worth 41% less today than it was in *1968*.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

By the way, a tax of up to 5% on the world’s multi-millionaires and billionaires could raise $1.7 trillion/year.

That would be enough to lift 2 billion people out of poverty and fund a global plan to end hunger.

We can't afford NOT to tax the rich.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Corporations Are Pushing The Supreme Court To Crush Unions https://t.co/GwD2N1CTlz

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

If you paid $1 in federal income taxes in 2018, you paid more in taxes than 34% of large, profitable corporations including Amazon, Netflix, IBM, Chevron, John Deere & Duke Energy according to a new GAO report requested by @SenSanders. This is what a rigged system looks like.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Flush with profit, Wendy's announced that it's doubling stock buybacks (to half a billion dollars) and doubling dividends to reward shareholders & executives.

87% of Wendy's workers make less than $15—the highest rate of poverty wages at any fast food chain except McDonald's.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

A Kansas City Fed report released today finds that corporate price markups accounted for over half of 2021's inflation. Markups grew by 3.4%, amounting to 58% of total inflation. The same year, U.S. corporate profits surged to their highest level since 1950.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

It’s 2023 and the minimum wage is still $7.25/hour

[Public Citizen @Public_Citizen]

FYI: Walmart and McDonald’s CEOs rake in a combined $45 MILLION in total compensation

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

I’m sick of political corruption.

I’m sick of mega-donors buying politicians.

I’m sick of candidates who take these bribes and the Parties that don’t say anything to them.