If the minimum wage had been $12 in 2016, over 6 million fewer people would be living in poverty today.

The treatment of farm workers in this country has been and continues to be unjust, unreasonable, and unsustainable.

It is long past time for Congress to end discrimination against agricultural workers in the Fair Labor Standards Act, period.

The question is whether we have the courage to act on climate.

We must not wait to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy or energy-efficient buildings or electrify our transportation infrastructure.

I hope that we can put politics aside, if even for just a moment, and focus instead on science and evidence and our future.

We must also not advocate our global leadership on the issue of climate change, or subcontract our energy and environmental policies to a handful of big polluters who ignore science and common sense.

This isn't that hard to figure out. Now must be the time to accept reality.

Just now, NOAA released their recap for U.S. and global climate for 2018.

please allow climate science and the research process to proceed unfettered by political attacks on scientists.

In 2018, there were 14 weather and climate disasters each with damages over $1 billion, total cost was $91 billion.