Bernie Sanders actually said...

real unemployment today, in my view, is probably closer to 16 percent than it is 9 percent

Sanders emphasizes the high rate of unemployment in the current economy.

02/14/2011

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I applaud the President for keeping in his budget a proposal to let all of the Bush tax breaks for the wealthiest 2 percent expire at the en...

And Congress can amend the law.

We have 19 percent of our children living in poverty. That is the highest rate of childhood poverty in the industrialized world.

I did not vote for the war in Iraq for a number of reasons, not least of which there was no mechanism to pay for that war.