The top 1 percent is earning more than 100 percent of all new income.
Do you think we should end the welfare program to the wealthiest family in America by raising the minimum wage?
Right now in America we have the most unequal distribution of wealth and income of any major country on Earth.
The middle class is disappearing.
I do know that Bank of America gets too many privileges relative to what they produce for the rest of us.
do you balance the budget on the backs of disabled veterans and the most vulnerable people in this country, or do you ask billionaires and v...
I see opportunities to invest that are not being taken advantage of, and the opportunities that I see are the opportunities to invest in the...
Well, I would point out that we have introduced legislation, Madam Chair, to do just that. It would bring in $590 billion over a 10-year per...
We have the highest rate of childhood poverty in the industrialized world.
The United States is the only country in the industrialized world that does not guarantee health care to all people as a right.
The top 1 percent owning 38 percent of the wealth, the bottom 60 percent owning 2.3 percent of the wealth.
That one family owns more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of the American people.
before you cut a woman in Vermont who is living on $15,000 a year Social Security, you may want to end some of the loopholes that enabled th...
the answer to the deficit problem... is to cut Social Security, is to cut Medicare, is to cut Medicaid, is to cut programs for children.
my understanding is that we are losing--and we have introduced legislation to remedy this--about $100 billion a year in revenue, a year, by ...
the choice that we face, do you really in the middle of a recession want to cut Social Security benefits and Medicare benefits when corporat...
we have to take a look at revenue and the fact that at 15.8 percent of GDP, revenue today is the lowest point that it has been almost in 60 ...
the vast majority of disabled vets would see significant cuts as opposed to the current chained CPI.
