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News Urging Senate to 'Ignore the Parliamentarian,' Sanders to Force Vote on $15 Minimum Wage Amendment "I regard it as absurd that the parliamentarian, a Senate staffer elected by no one, can prevent a wage increase for 32 million workers." Read more |
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News Investigation Into Chemical Exposure From Fracking in Pennsylvania Provokes Call for Rapid Phaseout "Pennsylvania's children should not be used as laboratory rats," said biologist Sandra Steingraber, who called fracking "an uncontrolled human experiment" that involves "toxic exposures." Read more |
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Views Opponents of a $15 Minimum Wage Are Dead Wrong Raising the minimum wage is widely popular. Read more |
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Views Capital Versus Biosphere: Humankind Is Testing the Limits of the Very Space in Which We Live An eco-social agenda fit for the times. Read more |
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Views COVID-19 Has Exacerbated Extreme Levels of Inequality. It’s Time for a Billionaire Wealth Tax The US's billionaires have amassed democracy-distorting concentrations of wealth and power as millions have been thrown into poverty. Read more |
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News To Help Fund Covid Recovery and Redress Inequality, Warren Unveils Wealth Tax on 'Ultra-Millionaires' and Billionaires "A wealth tax is popular among voters on both sides for good reason: because they understand the system is rigged to benefit the wealthy and large corporations," said the Massachusetts Democrat. Read more |
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News 'Failure to Deliver Is Not an Option': Khanna, Omar, AOC, and 20 Other House Dems Push VP to Overrule Parliamentarian on $15 Wage "If we don't overrule the Senate parliamentarian, we are condoning poverty wages for millions of Americans." Read more |
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Views Charity Won't End Vaccine Apartheid—Only Challenging Big Pharma's Patents and Profits Will It is time to put an end to an international patent system that has wreaked havoc on the world's ability to deal with health emergencies and put hundreds of millions of people across the Global South at the mercy of these powerful corporations. Read more |
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News Calling Walton Family 'Poster Child for Greed,' Sanders Says Taxpayers Should No Longer Subsidize Walmart's Starvation Wages "They've got mansions. They have all kinds of art collections. But somehow or another they can't pay their starting wage at more than 11 bucks an hour." Read more |
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Views Want to Strengthen Social Security? Raise the Minimum Wage—and Do It Now! Social Security is extremely popular, effective, and efficient, but it has one major flaw—benefits are too low. Raising the minimum wage would be a big step towards fixing this problem. Read more |