Reducing the harmful effects of sequestration cuts should be a top priority to ensure the Nation's security and military readiness.
The reality that we are seeing today is that the middle class in this country is disappearing.
We in Vermont proudly consider ourselves to be the 'education state' and take great pride in both our innovations and our national leadershi...
Raising the minimum wage it seems to me is critical.
Does anybody think it makes moral or economic sense that one family, the Walton family, owns more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of the A...
I'd like to also take this moment to thank my own home State Senator, Senator Sanders, who has been a very, very strong advocate for the dis...
I want to thank the Honorable Senator Bernie Sanders, of my home State of Vermont, for his continuing focus and heartfelt dedication to Verm...
The idea that anybody could suggest that we are not seeing massive increases in income and wealth inequality is beyond my comprehension.
The most business-friendly thing we can do is raise the minimum wage, provide extended unemployment benefits, encourage unionization.
42 percent of Americans' kids born into poverty will never get out of poverty.
Does anybody on the panel think that they need significant welfare help?
Do you think the Walton family, worth $144 billion, is in need of welfare from the middle class of this country?
95 percent of all new income generated in this country went to the top 1 percent.
That is a huge point.
The top 1 percent in America owns more wealth than the bottom-- that the top 1 percent owns 38 percent of the wealth in this country.
We have got to limit the size of the big banks so that they do not do what they have already done to the American middle class and the poor.
Should they pay their workers a living wage and should we raise the minimum wage to make sure that they do that?
There should be no debate at all over extending unemployment benefits to the long-term unemployed.
